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Get metadata about the active window (title, id, bounds, owner, URL, etc). Works on macOS, Linux, Windows.
Get metadata about the active window (title, id, bounds, owner, URL, etc)
Works on macOS, Linux, Windows.
Users on macOS 10.13 or earlier needs to download the Swift runtime support libraries.
npm install active-win
const activeWindow = require('active-win');
(async () => {
console.log(await activeWindow(options));
/*
{
title: 'Unicorns - Google Search',
id: 5762,
bounds: {
x: 0,
y: 0,
height: 900,
width: 1440
},
owner: {
name: 'Google Chrome',
processId: 310,
bundleId: 'com.google.Chrome',
path: '/Applications/Google Chrome.app'
},
url: 'https://sindresorhus.com/unicorn',
memoryUsage: 11015432
}
*/
})();
Type: object
Type: boolean
Default: true
Enable the screen recording permission check. Setting this to false
will prevent the screen recording permission prompt on macOS versions 10.15 and newer. The title
property in the result will always be set to an empty string.
Returns a Promise<object>
with the result, or Promise<undefined>
if there is no active window or if the information is not available.
platform
(string) - 'macos'
| 'linux'
| 'windows'
title
(string) - Window titleid
(number) - Window identifierbounds
(Object) - Window position and size
x
(number)y
(number)width
(number)height
(number)owner
(Object) - App that owns the window
name
(string) - Name of the appprocessId
(number) - Process identifierbundleId
(string) - Bundle identifier (macOS only)path
(string) - Path to the appurl
(string?) - URL of the active browser tab if the active window is Safari (includes Technology Preview), Chrome (includes Beta, Dev, and Canary), Edge (includes Beta, Dev, and Canary), Brave (includes Beta and Nightly), Mighty, Ghost Browser, Wavebox, Sidekick, Opera (includes Beta and Developer), or Vivaldi (macOS only)memoryUsage
(number) - Memory usage by the window owner processIt works on macOS, Linux, and Windows 7+.
Note: On Windows, there isn't a clear notion of a "Window ID". Instead it returns the memory address of the window "handle" in the id
property. That "handle" is unique per window, so it can be used to identify them. Read more….
FAQs
Get metadata about the active window and open windows (title, id, bounds, owner, URL, etc)
The npm package active-win receives a total of 948 weekly downloads. As such, active-win popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that active-win demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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