Read options of a menu bar for macOS application

Question

Is there a way to read in the options of a menu bar using Python and Applescript?

I'm trying to write a script where the user doesn't know what options exist in the menu bar so the script reads them from the application and displays them.

thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Knowing the name of application process, you can read menu bar options with simple apple-script like this:

set processName to "Safari"

tell application "System Events" to tell process processName
    tell menu bar 1 to set menuBarItemNames to name of menu bar items
end tell

choose from list menuBarItemNames

NOTE: the application should be running. Or, activate it in the beginning of the script:

tell application "Safari" to launch

tell application "System Events" to tell process "Safari"
    repeat until menu bar 1 exists
        delay 0.1
    end repeat
    tell menu bar 1 to set menuBarItemNames to name of menu bar items
end tell

choose from list menuBarItemNames