Warning when activating Javascript in Safari

Questions & Suggestions
1

I need to get Safari's window title and when I enable "Allow Javascript from Apple Events" I get this warning:

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So my question is: is it possible, maybe via AppleScript or Shell, to activate this momentarily (so just for this particular macro) and deactivate it when the macro ends, without showing any warning?

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I found this post:

Even though it indeed created the plist file, Safari still doesn't toggle that option ON

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I don't know if this will work, but it's worth a try: Add a killall cfprefsd command after the pref setting bit. That should force the prefs system to re-read all settings from your drive. However, you probably have to relaunch Safari, too … and even then, it may not work.

-rob.

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I was able to use an AppleScript to do this and then some KM actions to do some extra steps.

Now I got this script online:

tell application "System Events"
  tell application "Safari" to activate
  delay 1

  tell process "Safari"
  -- check if developer menu is available
  set menuItems to name of every menu bar item of menu bar 1
  if "Develop" is not in menuItems then error "You must enable developer menu" number -1024

  -- click to allow js events
  click menu item "Allow JavaScript from Apple Events" of menu 1 of menu bar item "Develop" of menu bar 1

  -- confirm allow
  if value of static text 1 of window 1 is "Are you sure you want to allow JavaScript from Apple Events?" then click button "Allow" of window 1
  end tell
end tell

I don't know if you are an AS expert or something, but I would like to use AS to add the password automatically without me relying on KM actions. Right now I have a Pause Until Found Image, followed by Insert Text by Typing, and then a Keystroke, running after the AS I shared above:
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So is it possible to replace these 3 actions with something in the AS itself?
It would need something like:
1 - Pause until the next pop up is the password pop up
2 - Insert password from %Variable%Local__SafariPasswordJavascript%
3 - Press OK (or Return/Enter key)

5

Given this is a security feature, and Apple clearly want you to have to enter your password before enabling this feature, it's likely to be difficult and fragile to automate.

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6

I'm just gonna use the "manual" way then, as described above. Thanks.