I have a macro that copies the Page title and URL of a webpage to the system clipboard but it doesn't work properly if there are multiple tabs. Instead of copying the values from the currently active tab, it copies the left-most tab.
The action, "Select Front Browser Tab," asks for a specific tab number (1,2,3, etc.) but I want to copy values from the currently active tab which I can't predict or hard code into the macro.
Is there a way to capture the page title and url of the currently active tab regardless of how many tabs are open?
SOLVED: The macro that I thought was malfunctioning was actually not running because I had placed it in a group that worked only when the Finder was the frontmost application. So, it wasn't running when Chrome, Safari, etc. was the frontmost application.
I had copied the url from the first tab for some other reason, manually. So, when I triggered the macro, thinking it actually ran, it didn't.
It works now that I moved it to a group that works in all applications.
That's the name of this thread and it's marked "Solved", but there is no answer for the rest of us. The "solution" is really a debugging issue, not the technique advertised in the title.
I explained how I solved the problem in my forum post but here's a copy of the macro if you'd like it.
I have another version of this that adds labels such as "author, date, etc. to the URL title and URL address. See below. I use this to create a "library" of links to articles that I want to keep. I paste this info into an application that I recommend, Workflowy. Just to be clear, the info is copied to the clipboard and can be pasted into any application -- not just Workflowy
