# Script help request: Automatic exports **URL:** \ **Category:** Scripting\ **Created:** [January 10, 2017, 9:27pm UTC](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/t/script-help-request-automatic-exports/5752 "2017-01-10T21:27:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CatharsisFonts](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/user_avatar/forum.glyphsapp.com/catharsisfonts/32/122_2.png) [@CatharsisFonts](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/u/CatharsisFonts)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 9:27pm UTC](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/t/script-help-request-automatic-exports/5752/1 "2017-01-10T21:27:10Z")
For my larger projects, exporting the latest TTF, OTF, UFO, and webfont files is quite a time-consuming chore requiring a lot of manual intervention. I could probably save a lot of time if I had a script to do that. Would somebody like to help me put that together? Unfortunately I don’t know much Python. Ideally, the script would do this (with dummy values): - Open the Glyphs files XXX.glyphs, YYY.glyphs, and ZZZ.glyphs. - For each file: - Set the version number to Z.ZZZ. - Refresh the version date. - Set OTF export directory to ~/otf\_path/ - Export fonts to OTF. - Set TTF export directory to ~/ttf\_path/ - Export fonts to TTF. - Set UFO export directory to ~/ufo\_path/ - Export fonts to UFO. - Set Webfonts export directory to ~/web\_path/ - Export webfonts. Is that even possible…? 😬 ---
**Author:** ![GeorgSeifert](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/user_avatar/forum.glyphsapp.com/georgseifert/32/259_2.png) [@GeorgSeifert](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/u/GeorgSeifert)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 10:23pm UTC](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/t/script-help-request-automatic-exports/5752/2 "2017-01-10T22:23:55Z")
That is possible. I try to put something together tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![mekkablue](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/user_avatar/forum.glyphsapp.com/mekkablue/32/23_2.png) [@mekkablue](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/u/mekkablue)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 6:04am UTC](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/t/script-help-request-automatic-exports/5752/3 "2017-01-11T06:04:06Z")
Or simply export everything at once, and use an AppleScript as a folder action on your export folder. ---
**Author:** ![GeorgSeifert](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/user_avatar/forum.glyphsapp.com/georgseifert/32/259_2.png) [@GeorgSeifert](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/u/GeorgSeifert)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 8:51am UTC](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/t/script-help-request-automatic-exports/5752/4 "2017-01-11T08:51:40Z")
Does this script help? I didn’t implement the setting of the version as I don’t know what you expect or where to get the value from. You have to change the file paths in the top of the script. > ---
**Author:** ![GeorgSeifert](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/user_avatar/forum.glyphsapp.com/georgseifert/32/259_2.png) [@GeorgSeifert](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/u/GeorgSeifert)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 8:52am UTC](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/t/script-help-request-automatic-exports/5752/5 "2017-01-11T08:52:54Z")
I just saw that the webfont export does not work. I’ll fix it. ---
**Author:** ![CatharsisFonts](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/user_avatar/forum.glyphsapp.com/catharsisfonts/32/122_2.png) [@CatharsisFonts](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/u/CatharsisFonts)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 9:23am UTC](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/t/script-help-request-automatic-exports/5752/6 "2017-01-11T09:23:17Z")
That looks awesome! 😄 Looking forward to the working version. As for version number and version date, I mean these two fields in the info dialog: ![](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/uploads/default/original/2X/4/42917904a7e806b514406ab694b3cac40b33018b.png) I’d like to «click» the refresh on the date field as part of the export script. I thought it might also be a good idea to allow the script to set the version number, but I guess then I’d have to edit the script each time I change the version number, and it might just be easier to edit it by hand in each of the .glyphs files. It’s not a big deal. ---
**Author:** ![GeorgSeifert](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/user_avatar/forum.glyphsapp.com/georgseifert/32/259_2.png) [@GeorgSeifert](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/u/GeorgSeifert)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 10:21am UTC](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/t/script-help-request-automatic-exports/5752/7 "2017-01-11T10:21:03Z")
I forgot about the date but what should happen with the version? ---
**Author:** ![CatharsisFonts](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/user_avatar/forum.glyphsapp.com/catharsisfonts/32/122_2.png) [@CatharsisFonts](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/u/CatharsisFonts)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 10:31am UTC](https://forum.glyphsapp.com/t/script-help-request-automatic-exports/5752/8 "2017-01-11T10:31:09Z")
I thought it would be good to be able to set the version number of all files to a new value, but I figured out in the post above that it would be easier to do it by hand than to fiddle with the script each time the version number should increase.