Tumble files around a bit

WeakAuras/Snippets/Reading Tooltips.lua

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+-- somewhere in your addon's initialization
+local myTooltip = CreateFrame("GameTooltip", "MyAddOnTooltip", UIParent, "GameTooltipTemplate")
+myTooltip:SetOwner(UIParent, "ANCHOR_NONE")
+
+-- later, when you want to look at a tooltip
+myTooltip:SetUnitBuff("player", index of buff)
+for i = 1, myTooltip:NumLines() do
+    local textLeft = _G["MyAddOnTooltipTextLeft"..i]:GetText()
+    local textRight = _G["MyAddOnTooltipTextRight"..i]:GetText()
+    -- do a :match or whatever to look for pertinent text
+end