Disclosed are a method and device for acquiring application information. The method comprises: when a mouse pointer is located on an application, monitoring an instruction for acquiring application information which is input by a user through a keyboard; matching the instruction input by the user with at least one pre-set instruction, and if the instruction input by the user is consistent with any one pre-set instruction among at least one pre-set instruction, then triggering a script program corresponding to the instruction input by the user to run in order to acquire the application information corresponding to the instruction input by the user; and converting the application information into text information, and inserting the text information into the clipboard.