Does anyone have a dependable way of extracting selected text from any app?

[Madd0g]

I'm using hs.axuielement, I found the AXSelectedText attribute, it seems like in chromium/electron apps the selected text comes out without the new lines.

I tried playing with ranges to extract the text from AXValue, but the ranges all wrong and the text offset comes out all wrong.

Does anyone have a good implementation that extracts texts properly with hs.axuielement?

Thanks!

[boblauer]

I know this is old, but I wonder if you could, after a text selection is detected:

• Save what's currently in the clipboard to $variable
• Send cmd+c to copy the selected text
• Read it from the clipboard
• Insert $variable back into the clipboard