set-electron-app-accessible

This cli app tells an electron app to turn on accessibility, so it can be controlled by AppleScript.

Build

Make sure you have the xcode cli tools installed and just simply run

make

Run

./set-electron-app-accessible PID

Where PID is the process id of the app you are trying to control.

You can do this in in AppleScript by process name by doing:

tell application "System Events"
    set pid to unix id of first process whose name is "The Electron App's Name"
    do shell script "./set-electron-app-accessible " & pid
end tell

Attribution

This code is based on code given at:

• https://github.com/dane-harnett/workspace
• https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/tutorial/accessibility
• https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd/blob/master/src/skhd.c