The easiest way to do this is to use Automator. You will have to determine the right path for yourself. If you have a different Firefox version, then the UI element of UI element 1 of (first UI element whose value of attribute “AXXPath” is theXPath) path will be different due to the different UI Elements structure. This is one of the main problems with GUI scripting. Most likely, they gave you code that works on a specific Firefox version. Read the clipboard contents until either they change from "" or a second elapses. Set frontmost of application process "firefox" to true Bring Firefox to the front, highlight the URL in the URL field and copy it. Set the clipboard to a default blank value Set theClipboard to (the clipboard as record) For the 1st step (getting the URL) you can use following more or less standard code: on firefoxCurrentTabURL() Anyway, this will be a lot better then ChatGPT solution, as GUI scripting to get the URL is more or less standard, and the rest of the steps (using curl, NSXMLNode and NSXMLElement, running XPath queries on the Document (in XHTML format) doesn’t require GUI- scripting). That is, in the solution suggests, GUI scripting will still have to be used - to get the URL. Even to get the URL of the current page, you would have to use GUI scripting. The code that ChatGPT showed you uses GUI scripting, like almost all tasks in Firefox, which is terribly unscriptable. You can’t pass DOM objects (which are the result of evaluating an XPath expression in the browser) back to your scripting code and do anything useful with them. in JavaScript code which you run via doJavaScript in Safari. And anything you could use it for must happen in the browser context, i.e. This is, of course, not very useful: The result simply returned but not used. Using Safari, it’s fairly simply to work with XPath (I’m using JavaScript here, AS should be similar) const app = Application("Safari") Ĭonst scriptToRun = `const result = document.evaluate("XPath expression", null, 0, null) ` I wouldn’t even trust it as far as I can throw a stone (which is about 20cm). Which is, I’d think, not possible via XPath, since there’s no underlying XML document.ĬhatGPT is just aping things it read somewhere (or invented, as in this case). The code you posted seems to (try to) access GUI components of FF. According to the scripting dictionary, every window should contain a document, but that is not accessible via AS. You can get all tabs ( windows) and their names. Is ChatGPT lost here or is it just a minor fix?Ĭan you e.g, read a label or enter data into a form field using XPaths and AppleScript?įrom your question, I guess that you’re referring to an HTML document currently visible in FF whose content you want to access via XPath and AppleScript. Googling on that string doesn’t return anything useful. However, there is a setting in about:config accessibility.force_disabled that should be se to -1.Īnyway, when I run the code ChatGPT suggested I get an error message about the AXXPath attribute. One part of this answer is wrong - there is no such preference as ChatGPT suggests. To enable accessibility in Firefox, go to Preferences > Privacy & Security > Permissions and check the box for “Allow accessibility services to access your browser”. Note that Firefox must have accessibility enabled for this code to work. The value property of the UI element object returns the value of the element, which you can then use as needed. In this code, you would replace "xpath of the element to get" with the XPath expression of the element you want to get the value of. Set elementValue to value of UI element of UI element 1 of (first UI element whose value of attribute "AXXPath" is theXPath) Set theXPath to "xpath of the element to get" Here’s an example AppleScript code that uses the Accessibility Services API to get the value of an element’s XPath in Firefox: tell application "Firefox" Firefox provides a built-in accessibility API called Accessibility Services that allows AppleScript to interact with the browser’s user interface elements, including web pages and their elements. Yes, it is possible to access XPaths in Firefox using AppleScript.
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