Get metadata about the active window (title, id, bounds, owner, etc)
Works on macOS, Linux, Windows.
$ npm install active-win
const activeWin = require('active-win');
(async () => {
console.log(await activeWin());
/*
{
title: 'Unicorns - Google Search',
id: 5762,
bounds: {
x: 0,
y: 0,
height: 900,
width: 1440
},
owner: {
name: 'Google Chrome',
processId: 310,
bundleId: 'com.google.Chrome',
path: '/Applications/Google Chrome.app'
},
memoryUsage: 11015432
}
*/
})();Returns a Promise<Object> with the result.
Returns an Object with the result.
title(string) - Window titleid(number) - Window identifierbounds(Object) - Window position and size (macOS only)x(number)y(number)width(number)height(number)
owner(Object) - App that owns the windowname(string) - Name of the appprocessId(number) - Process identifierbundleId(string) - Bundle identifier (macOS only)path(string) - Path to the app (macOS and Windows only)
memoryUsage(number) - Memory usage by the window (macOS only)
It works on macOS, Linux, and Windows 7+.
Note: On Windows, there isn't a clear notion of a "Window ID". Instead it returns the memory address of the window "handle" in the id property. That "handle" is unique per window, so it can be used to identify them. Read more….
- active-win-cli - CLI for this module
MIT