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Work · January 18, 2017

Hammerspoon

Powerful window manager and automation tool for OS X

Hammerspoon launched on January 18, 2017 with 3 votes. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.

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What it does

Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua. Making the runtime, funtime.

This is a tool for powerful automation of macOS. At its core, Hammerspoon is just a bridge between the operating system and a Lua scripting engine. What gives Hammerspoon its power is a set of extensions that expose specific pieces of system functionality, to the user. You can write Lua code that interacts with macOS APIs for applications, windows, mouse pointers, filesystem objects, audio devices, batteries, screens, low-level keyboard/mouse events, clipboards, location services, wifi, and more. If you want to explore the options Hammerspoon offers, check out the Getting Started Guide and the full API documentation as well as the already pre-made plugins called Spoons . Typically you would…from hammerspoon.org

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