inDesign Script: Get Text and Page number of Text styled with a certain Paragraph Style using JavaScript?

Question

I have an inDesign document with 10 pages filled with text. The text is styled with different Paragraph Styles, of which some are relevant for building a custom table of contents. There are two relevant Paragraph Styles, "Header1" and "Header2" from which I am trying to build my own Table of Contents, which I want to export in a text file. The relevant information I need to get is the text which is styled with "Header1" and "Header2" and the corresponding page number. I tried to achieve this via GREP and was halfway successful, but GREP scans the whole document and not page by page. Is there a way to go through all styled texts by Paragraph Style page by page? Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Why do you need to do this with a Script, when InDesign already has a Table of Contents feature under the Layout menu? This feature literally finds all text using the Styles selected along with their page numbers and applies the ToC Paragraph Styles you wish to use.

If all you want is the text, use the Table of Contents feature and export the text in the ToC as a TXT file. Way less time than writing a Script.

And if you check the Bookmarks option, the ToC is automatically interactive in an exported PDF.