Opening tab groups as part of automation?

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I remember seeing a similar question on here back when Monterey was in beta, but I want to know if anybody has figured anything out. Basically, I’ve been building a lot of automation around focus modes and contexts, and one of the things that I would like to automatically happen when switching contexts is for Safari to automatically switch to a tab group. As a workaround, I’ve been using Keyboard Maestro to switch to Safari, open a new window, and then execute the keyboard shortcut (Cmd+Option+Arrow) to switch, but that seems super “hacky,” only sometimes works, and breaks every time I add a new tab group or something like that.

Ideally, I’d like to be able to open a bunch, or run a shortcut, or a keyboard maestro macro, or similar and open a specific tab group by name in a new safari window along with my other automations like window management, Timery, opening Omnifoucs perspective, etc.

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I’ve wondered the same thing, but haven’t found a good solution. I wish these groups were targetable by Shortcuts.

…Maybe they can be addressed with AppleScript? hmm

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Nope, sadly not. I wish!

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Apologies if this is unrelated to tab groups, but keyboard maestro can open a specific folder of bookmarks as new tabs with

“open in new tabs” in safari >
Select menu in safari >
Submenu your bookmark folder >
Menu item: open in new tabs

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Not tab groups, but that is another good workaround. Thanks!

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You could create tab groups for what you need? You can put site addresses in more than one group.

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Are tab groups surfaced in the menu bar at all?

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There is a menu item to go to the next and previous tab group, but not a specific one by name.