How can I write a script that opens a notification?

Is there an apple script that can click on the notification for me so that I don't have to open the app using a mouse?

I plan to bind this script to a keyboard shortcut and that way I can open incoming notifications with just the keyboard.

Here are two notifications type examples

Note that scripts like this wont work because it attempts to click on a button and there's no consistent button to click on to open a notification. Sometimes its top, sometimes its bottom, sometimes its neither.

What is needed is a script that clicks on the "left" part of the notification, that will always open the app.

Solution 1:

Testing under macOS High Sierra, the following line of example AppleScript code, when run, had the following general effects on a notification:

tell application "System Events" to ¬
    click every window of application process "Notification Center"

• Open the app for which the notification was from, if it wasn't already opened.
• If the app was already open, it would set focus to the app.
• If notification from multiple apps, the app on the top notification in the list gets opened/focus, additions apps get opened, if not already open.

Note that with some notifications, they will be dismissed; however, with others, the app will still be opened/focused as applicable but the notification will not be dismissed. These will need to be replied to appropriately.