How to read active terminal output in vscode extension? [duplicate]

Question

I'd like to watch vscode builtin terminal output or at least be able to read whole output. This output will be searched against some pattern.

I looked at this question, but mentioned method

window.onDidWriteTerminalData

appears to be not available at current api.

How to read terminal output from vscode extension?

Answer 1

It cannot do in stable version of VSCode. Try window.onDidWriteTerminalData API only in Insider version.

For your information, there are several options, not official supported by VSCode.

1. Use node-pty to create and manage the process and then hook it up using ExtensionTerminalOptions.
2. Create a process/script that wraps the terminal shell.

reference:

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/83224

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/commit/dc6b475be75999e78233f9f6951ef66f18f768ea#r53974957