394582 - Provide access to page text via AppleScript

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Camino Graveyard :: OS Integration, enhancement)

Description

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Safari supports:

tell application "Safari"
	set myText to text of document 1 of window 1
end tell

Like bug 374648, but probably even more difficult :(  It seems worthwhile to do, IMO.

Comment 1

[Stuart Morgan]

I don't see any reason we wouldn't want to do this, so confirming.

Comment 2

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

In bug 196704 comment 8, smfr indicates that the mechanism our Services impl uses can get either text or HTML from a page (and either selection or the entire document); any chance we could call that on the whole page and hook that up to AppleScript to get text/source of page?

[3:01pm] peeja: ooh, interesting
[3:02pm] peeja: I definitely don' have time to look now, but that's a good thought
[3:02pm] sauron: sometimes random comments in old bugs produce serendipitous results
[3:02pm] sauron: i'll comment in the relevant bugs, then
[3:02pm] sauron: and keep it in my head to poke you about it periodically ;)
[3:03pm] peeja: cmd_getContents.  well there you go.

Comment 3

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

FIXED by checkin of the patch in bug 374648.