Export every Illustrator artboard to SVG without resaving your file under different names and showing you any dialogs

artboards_to_svg.jsx

var exportToDir = "/Users/julik/Code/apps/mvp/public/icons/";

/* Crop every icon in your Illustrator file witha named artboard. This script will export them all */
var docRef = app.activeDocument;
docRef.save();

// Get the source path
var originalPath = app.activeDocument.fullName.toString();

// Allocate a copy of the current document that we will throw away. We do this
// since doing an exportFile() renames the active document and it needs to be resaved to a 
// different place
var tempFile = new File('/tmp/tosvg.ai')
docRef.saveAs(tempFile);

var exportOptions = new ExportOptionsSVG();
for (var i = 0; i < docRef.artboards.length; i++ ) {
    var artboardName = docRef.artboards[i].name.toLowerCase();
    
    var destPath = exportToDir + "/" + artboardName  + ".svg";
    var destFile = new File(destPath);
    
    docRef.artboards.setActiveArtboardIndex(i);
    docRef.exportFile(destFile, ExportType.SVG, options);  
}


// Close the copy of the document we have created
docRef.close()

// Reopen the original document
var originalFile = new File(originalPath);
app.open(originalFile);

Expounded upon here: http://www.ericson.net/content/2011/06/export-illustrator-layers-andor-artboards-as-pngs-and-pdfs/ but it didn't handle SVGs natively, so before I'd go there and update it...