This following AppleScript code should work if you save it as a “stay open” application. Just set the property values for scriptToRun and lookForThisText and it should be good to go.
Don’t forget to grant permissions in System Preferences for your new stay open application to control your computer
property scriptToRun : (path to desktop as text) & "your.scpt" -- your path to .scpt file
property lookForThisText : "Search For This Text In Notification Windows" -- your search term
property theseTitles : {}
on idle
getNotificationTitles()
delay 0.1
if theseTitles contains lookForThisText then
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delay 6 -- Gives Banner Time To Self Close
--tell current application to beep 5 -- Just For Testing
run script alias scriptToRun
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end if
return 1 -- in seconds
end idle
on quit
-- Executed when the script quits
continue quit -- allows the script to quit
end quit
on getNotificationTitles()
-- This Gets The Titles Of The Currently Displaying Notification Alerts And Banners
tell application id "com.apple.SystemEvents"
tell (the first process whose bundle identifier = "com.apple.notificationcenterui")
set theseWindows to every window whose subrole is "AXNotificationCenterAlert" or subrole is "AXNotificationCenterBanner"
set theseTitles to {}
repeat with thisWindow in theseWindows
set titleText to the value of static text 1 of thisWindow
set the end of theseTitles to titleText
set subTitleText to the value of static text 1 of scroll area 1 of thisWindow
set the end of theseTitles to subTitleText
set notificationText to the value of static text 2 of scroll area 1 of thisWindow
set the end of theseTitles to notificationText
end repeat
end tell
end tell
end getNotificationTitles
Here is a quick animation showing the process in action. I created an AppleScript app named Test Notification.app whose only purpose is to display a notification… display notification "Blah" with title "BLAH BLAH" subtitle "DUH” Then, using the code I used as the answer to this post, I created a “Stay Open Application”, whose only purpose is to monitor all incoming notification windows for the text in which I define in the variable lookForThisText. Once the text is identified, it triggers another script "Merge Every Finder Window.scpt" which as the name says… merges every Finder window.
