Struggling with the script: left-click once to copy to clipboard

[qwerties]

Hello there!

I'm working on the following script to be able to hold ctrl and single click to copy the marked word to clipboard. Problem is it's only working with plain text and not clickable URL words.

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^LButton::

Click 2

Send, ^c

return

To show you an example in the following article, I can click anywhere on the headline or article to copy words, but if I try and copy the name of the author Sheena at the top of the page, it does not work. I do not want to load/enter the page, just copy the word Sheena. Do you guys have a workaround to get this to work?

Article:
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/24/australia/australia-lockdown-covid-lucky-country-intl-cmd/index.html

Thanks a bunch.

[mikeyww]

That's tricky because the link is clickable. Below is a way to get the whole line.

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#IfWinActive ahk_exe chrome.exe
^+LButton::
KeyWait, Ctrl
KeyWait, Shift
WinGetPos,,, width
MouseGetPos, xpos, ypos
MouseClickDrag, L, 0, ypos, width - 30, ypos
Clipboard =
Send ^c
ClipWait, 0
If ErrorLevel
 MsgBox, 48, Error, An error occurred while waiting for the clipboard.
MouseMove, xpos, ypos
SoundBeep, 1700
Return
#IfWinActive

There could be some "advanced" methods to get the page's text and then identify which text matches the mouse's position, but I'd be skeptical about the reliability of that, due to variations in fonts & layout.