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Find the Mac OSX app that's stealing the active window away
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#!/usr/bin/python | |
# Print the active OSX app whenever it changes. | |
# (Use to figure out which ill-behaved app is stealing focus away from you.) | |
# Adapted from http://apple.stackexchange.com/a/148094/112614 | |
try: | |
from AppKit import NSWorkspace | |
except ImportError: | |
print "Can't import AppKit -- maybe you're running python from brew?" | |
print "Try running with Apple's /usr/bin/python instead." | |
exit(1) | |
from datetime import datetime | |
from time import sleep | |
last_active_name = None | |
while True: | |
active_app = NSWorkspace.sharedWorkspace().activeApplication() | |
if active_app['NSApplicationName'] != last_active_name: | |
last_active_name = active_app['NSApplicationName'] | |
print '%s: %s [%s]' % ( | |
datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'), | |
active_app['NSApplicationName'], | |
active_app['NSApplicationPath'] | |
) | |
sleep(1) |
This is great code, but what if I want to get the window title as well? Is that possible?
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This is great! - how would you get the title. Specifically I'm interested in getting the URL to see data similar to what something like rescuetime gives.