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AppleScript for switching between en and zh-cn language on wikipedia in Safari
set query_selector_en to "\"li.interlanguage-link.interwiki-en > a.interlanguage-link-target\""
set query_selector_zh to "\"li.interlanguage-link.interwiki-zh > a.interlanguage-link-target\""
set zh_replace_from to "\"/wiki\""
set zh_replace_to to "\"/zh-cn\""
set js_code_to_en to "window.location.href = document.querySelector(" & query_selector_en & ").href"
set js_code_to_zh to "window.location.href = document.querySelector(" & query_selector_zh & ").href.replace(" & zh_replace_from & ", " & zh_replace_to & ")"
tell application "Safari"
set current_url to URL of current tab of window 1
if current_url contains "zh.wikipedia" then
set target_lang to "en"
else if current_url contains "en.wikipedia" then
set target_lang to "zh"
else
beep
display notification "The other language is not available" with title "Wikipedia EN-ZH Language Switcher"
return
end if
end tell
if target_lang is equal to "en" then
tell application "Safari" to do JavaScript js_code_to_en in document 1
else if target_lang is equal to "zh" then
tell application "Safari" to do JavaScript js_code_to_zh in document 1
end if
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