macOS Grab text from an application window

[wrldwzrd89]

Does anyone know how to do the following in AppleScript:

Open a web browser
Select all the text in the current window/tab
Copy that to the clipboard
Paste the text into a plain text document
Save it to a file

The reason I need plain text is so that command-line programs like grep can read and parse it.

 

[superbovine]

Does anyone know how to do the following in AppleScript:

Open a web browser
Select all the text in the current window/tab
Copy that to the clipboard
Paste the text into a plain text document
Save it to a file

The reason I need plain text is so that command-line programs like grep can read and parse it.

there is an pre-configured automator action for Safari called "Get Text from Webpage" there are several others. You might play with that for awhile.

 

[wrldwzrd89]

there is an pre-configured automator action for Safari called "Get Text from Webpage" there are several others. You might play with that for awhile.

Thanks, somehow when I was looking through Automator I missed that completely.