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https://github.com/1j01/node-ahk
Desktop scripting with Node.js based on IronAHK ⌨🖱🔥
https://github.com/1j01/node-ahk
ahk autohotkey automation desktop-automation edge input ironahk keyboard mouse multiism node node-ahk robotjs
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Desktop scripting with Node.js based on IronAHK ⌨🖱🔥
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/1j01/node-ahk
- Owner: 1j01
- Created: 2015-01-27T21:12:45.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2022-07-27T00:04:59.000Z (over 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-05-20T21:44:42.414Z (7 months ago)
- Topics: ahk, autohotkey, automation, desktop-automation, edge, input, ironahk, keyboard, mouse, multiism, node, node-ahk, robotjs
- Language: C#
- Homepage:
- Size: 485 KB
- Stars: 31
- Watchers: 5
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
# node-ahk
This project aims to use [IronAHK][] in [Node.js][] via [Edge.js][]
with the benefit of all the existing modules on [npm][].
There's a project that's further ahead in development called [RobotJS][].
It could have a playful API with clever usage of concatenation and optional globals.
The following example is in [CoffeeScript][], but you could use JavaScript,
[TypeScript, DogeScript, Python, Ruby, etc.][List of languages that compile to JS]
```coffee
on Ctrl+Alt+C, ->
oldClipboard = getClipboard()
send Ctrl+C
newClipboard = getClipboard()
setClipboard oldClipboard
send Ctrl+V
setClipBoard newClipboard
```
All the keyboard constants would be strings
with control characters at the start and end,
to differenciate between e.g. `Ctrl+Esc` and `"Ctrl+Esc"``.
That would mean you wouldn't accidently
send commands when you wanted to send text
(but sending arbitrary user input would still be dangerous).
There could also be "AutoHotQuery" (`ahq`)
with a jQuery-like API for selecting and operating on windows.
```coffee
$(/Google Chrome|Mozilla Firefox|Microsoft Edge/).focus()
.then -> Send Ctrl+T, "google.com", Enter
```
Look, no `SetTitleMatchMode`! Amazing.
That would open a new tab in one browser window.
To open new tabs in each matched window, you could do:
```coffee
$(/Google Chrome|Mozilla Firefox|Microsoft Edge/).send(Ctrl+T, "google.com", Enter)
```
With Edge.js, everything can be [syncronous or asyncronous][sync vs async].
The creator of IronAHK did try to make it modular
(and it could be much worse)
but they still let paradigms like `ErrorLevel` and other global state
seep into the core.
IronAHK would need to be refactored or more likely cannibalized in order to implement much of the functionality.
I only got a few functions more or less working
without modifying IronAHK.
At any rate, this project is not being actively worked on,
so definitely check out [RobotJS][].
[IronAHK]: https://github.com/polyethene/IronAHK
[Node.js]: https://nodejs.org/
[Edge.js]: http://tjanczuk.github.io/edge/
[sync vs async]: http://tjanczuk.github.io/edge/#/27
[npm]: https://www.npmjs.com/
[CoffeeScript]: http://coffeescript.org/
[List of languages that compile to JS]: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-languages-that-compile-to-js
[RobotJS]: https://github.com/octalmage/robotjs