I recently made the mistake of asking folks to thumbs up an email if they wanted me to get back to them on something. Turns out, mail apps make it a royal pain to actually act on that data since it’s always behind a hover. You can’t select all and copy. You can’t use dev tools to inspect the element, since it changes when your mouse goes back to dev tools.

The solution was – largely derived from Patrick’s post (here):

1. In Dev Tools console, set a 3 second JS timer to break into the debugger
2. Quickly expand the thumbs up UI
3. Wait for debugger to break in
4. Inspect the element of the dropped down UI
5. Copy that raw HTML into your editor / clipboard / PowerShell
6. Regex the hell out of it

In the case of a mail in Outlook:

Get-Clipboard |
    sls '>([^<]*)</span></div></span></div><img class="ouFoF' -all |
    % { $_.Matches } | % { $_.Captures.Groups[1].Value }