SCRIPT: Activate Google Chrome Tab for Specified URL

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Here is where I modified it
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Execute AppleScript
property ptyScriptName : "Activate Google Chrome Tab for Specified URL"
property ptyScriptVer : "1.2" -- ADD Activate Google command
property ptyScriptDate : "2018-10-13"
property ptyScriptAuthor : "estockly" -- adapted for KM by JMichaelTX

(*
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PURPOSE:
  • Activate Google Chrome Tab for Specified tab name
      • If URL is for existing Tab, that Window/Tab will be made frontmost
      • Else a new Tab in frontmoat Window will be added for URL
  
RETURNS: Chrome Window/TAB with Requested URL at Front

REQUIRED:
  1. macOS 10.11.6+
  2. Mac Applications
      • Google Chrome
      
TAGS: @CAT.Web @CAT.Windows @SW.Chrome @type.Example @Lang.AS @Auth.Other @CAT.URL

REF: The following were used in some way in the writing of this script.

  1. 2017-05-14, estockly, Late Night Software Ltd.
      What is Best Method to Activate Google Chrome Tab for Existing URL? (Ques by @JMichaelTX)
      http://forum.latenightsw.com/t/what-is-best-method-to-activate-google-chrome-tab-for-existing-url/600/16?u=jmichaeltx
      
~~~ MY QUESTION on the SD FORUM ~~~
What is Best Method to Activate Google Chrome Tab for Existing URL?

RESULTS:

Congratulations Ed! Your script is the fastest by 2X when run against my standard test from above 
(10 win with 20 total tabs):
    @JMichaelTX: 0.39 @ccstone: 0.38 @estocky: 0.17

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tell application "Keyboard Maestro Engine" to set urlToFind to getvariable "URLToFind"


tell application "Google Chrome"
    set windowTabList to title of tabs of every window
    set targetURL to urlToFind
    set found to false
    set windowIndex to 1
    
    repeat with thisWindowsTabs in windowTabList
        set TabIndex to 1
        repeat with TabURL in thisWindowsTabs
            if (TabURL as text) contains targetURL then
                set index of window windowIndex to 1
                set active tab index of window 1 to TabIndex
                set found to true
                exit repeat
            end if
            set TabIndex to TabIndex + 1
        end repeat
        if found then exit repeat
        set windowIndex to windowIndex + 1
    end repeat
    if not found then
        make new tab at window 1 with properties {URL:targetURL}
    end if
    
    activate
    
end tell

--- Force macOS to Actually Make the Window FrontMost ---

tell application "System Events"
    tell application process "Google Chrome"
        tell (front window) to perform action "AXRaise"
    end tell
end tell

return "OK"
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I just removed this part of the script:


--- Force macOS to Actually Make the Window FrontMost ---

tell application "System Events"
	tell application process "Google Chrome"
		tell (front window) to perform action "AXRaise"
	end tell
end tell

First, it was at the bottom of the script, and it should be at the top (activate google chrome beforehand). And it never worked. I had to add an external activate google chrome action on keyboard maestro before running the script and now it works 100% of the times (previously worked only if I had google chrome activated)

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