foreground_app_info

Ever wanted to get some details about the foreground app, such as which is it, which URL is currently opened, etc? This project is for you.

Demo via sleep 3; ./demo.py.

Examples:

$ ./demo.py
{'appName': 'Terminal',
 'idleTime': 0.274327906,
 'url': 'file:///Users/az/Programmierung/foreground_app_info',
 'windowTitle': './demo.py  /Users/az/Programmierung/foreground_app_info \xe2\x80\x94 osascript \xe2\x80\x94 80\xc3\x9724'}

$ sleep 3; ./demo.py
{'appName': 'Chrome',
 'idleTime': 1.440957492,
 'url': 'https://news.ycombinator.com/',
 'windowTitle': 'Hacker News'}

$ sleep 3; ./demo.py
{'appName': 'Finder',
 'idleTime': 2.213467371,
 'url': 'file:///Users/az/Documents/',
 'windowTitle': 'Documents'}

$ sleep 3; ./demo.py
{'appName': 'TextEdit',
 'idleTime': 1.435908488,
 'url': 'file:///Users/az/Documents/todo-musicplayer.txt',
 'windowTitle': 'todo-musicplayer.txt'}

This project is registered on Pypi. You can install it via:

$ pip install foreground_app_info

Simple demo code:

from foreground_app_info import get_app_info
from pprint import pprint

pprint(get_app_info())

This is currently used by TimeCapture.

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