List all installed colour profiles

In short, no, it's impossible. The list of color profiles is not accessible via Photoshop scripts.

The most you can do is read the list of files in the directory where the profiles are stored, but this method is pointless, as the file names and the internal names stored within the profiles themselves (which Photoshop uses to build the list) don't match in most cases. (You also need to analyze other tags within the profile files—not all of them are accessible in Photoshop).

The only adequate approach is to search for ready-made tools (or write your own) that can build such a list at the operating system level upon request from a script and save it to a file.
I haven't tested it, but according to the documentation, LittleCMS utilities can build such list.

I'm increasingly using Python scripts to augment Photoshop scripting capabilities, where a list of profiles can be built like this (windows):

import subprocess, sys
from pathlib import Path
from PIL import ImageCms

try:
    import PIL
except ImportError:
    subprocess.check_call([sys.executable, "-m", "pip", "install", "pillow"])
    from PIL import ImageCms

icc_folder = Path(r"C:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers\color")
if not icc_folder.exists():
    print(f"Folder {icc_folder} not found!")
    sys.exit(1)

output_file = Path.home() / "Desktop" / "Installed_ColorProfiles.txt"
lines = []

for icc_file in icc_folder.glob("*.[ic][ci]c"):
    try:
        profile = ImageCms.getOpenProfile(str(icc_file))
        desc = profile.profile.profile_description
        lines.append(desc)
    except Exception as e:
        lines.append(f"{icc_file.name} -> Read error: {e}")

with open(output_file, "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
    f.write("\n".join(lines))

print(f"Done! Profile list saved to {output_file}")

Jsx script can either call this python script and read the text output directly from the file, or you can write a mini-tcp server in python and communicate with it through the Socket object in jsx.

I’m a Mac user myself and on a Mac there are several Folders that can contain ICC profiles which Photoshop uses, I expect

the situation on Windows is similar in that regard. 

So I think you could check via Folder("C:\Windows\system32\spool\drivers\color").getFiles() (and the potential other folder-paths, then weed out doubles etc.) 

 I'd perhaps be finding the relevant system folders and screen-shotting them, then OCR/using text recognition.

Quicker than pen and paper ';~}.

An app like the wonderful Colorthink Pro will list all installed colour profiles on a machine - that said, installers like Epsons will sometimes hide ICC profiles [in packages on Mac] so they may be more difficult to find but, in any case, AFAIK those hidden ones seem only available to the installer's SW, eg the Epson driver.

I guess if you're after just the ICC profiles that Photoshop and Adobe apps can access, then screen-shotting the Photoshop dialogs (print, assign profile, convert to profile etc.) & using OCR would be easiest. 

Just a thought, scripting this would be way out of my wheelhouse. 

I hope this helps

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