This is a small command-line program for OS X that assigns custom icons to Web Internet Location (.webloc) files, displaying a thumbnail of the web page that they point to.
If you'd like to have this program run automatically whenever you add .webloc files somewhere (e.g. by dragging them from your web browser windows), you can do this in a number of ways. If you have a license to the Hazel application, that might be easiest, but other ways are folder actions (via Automator) and launch agents, which I'll explain below.
A launch agent is a configuration that tells the launchd system to do something (e.g. run setWeblocThumb) when something happens (e.g. a file is added to a specific folder).
You can use setWeblocThumb's -a argument to generate launch agents that watch certain paths in your filesystem. For example, run the following command to have it run every time you add files onto your desktop:
setWeblocThumb -a ~/Desktop
To learn more about launchd, launchctl and launch agents, please refer to Apple's documentation and the Wikipedia article.
You can use Automator to create a folder action that runs setWeblocThumb whenever files are added to a particular folder.
(Note: these directions are written for Snow Leopard)
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Open Automator and select the Folder Action template
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Select the folder you'd like to attach this action to from the combo box in the upper right-hand corner where it says "Folder Action receives files and folders added to"
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Drag the Run Shell Script action from the list in the left (it's under Utilities) to the action area on the right
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Select Pass input: as arguments in the action's settings
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Type the following into the shell script action's text field:
/usr/local/bin/setWeblocThumb "`dirname \"$1\"`" -
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