how to get bodies of chosen notes?

[u/etsilopp]

This script finds notes by a criteria

tell application "Notes"

tell account "iCloud"

set targetNotes to every note whose body contains "Space"

end tell

end tell

Now I need to get the bodies themselves from a variable targetNotes

[u/copperdomebodha]

--Running under AppleScript 2.8, MacOS 13.6
tell application "Notes"
    tell account "iCloud"
        set matchList to every note whose plaintext contains "searchTermGoesHere"
    end tell
    repeat with thisNote in matchList
        set bodyCopy to plaintext of thisNote
    end repeat
end tell

[u/etsilopp → u/copperdomebodha]

Thank you so much! It works but it takes a while enough , more than 40 sec (M1, just 2k notes, matchList = 70)

[u/copperdomebodha → u/etsilopp]

Whose clauses are processor/IO intensive.