Launching Pythonista from 1.6b app extension

[fraserspeirs]

I'm trying to write a script for the 1.6 app extension that will:

• Take some text passed in from the share sheet
• Format the text in a specific way
• Place the formatted text on the pasteboard
• Launch Pythonista and run another script that will take the text on the pasteboard and do something with it.

Here's the script:

import appex
import clipboard
import webbrowser 

initial_text = appex.get_text()

# text processing stuff

clipboard.set(processed_text)
webbrowser.open('pythonista://NewFromClipboard.py')

Is it possible to launch a pythonista:// URL from the app extension? If not, is it possible to do something with objc_util?

Worst case, I can make it a two-step process but it would be great to have it in one place.

[omz]

As far as I'm aware, this is unfortunately impossible. The API that is supposed to open URLs from app extensions is explicitly documented as only being available for Today widgets, the regular one (via UIApplication) doesn't do anything either in an extension.

In earlier versions of iOS 8, there was a workaround for this (essentially abusing a web view), but this has apparently been patched in 8.4.

[fraserspeirs]

Thanks. It's not a huge big deal to make it a two-step process. Just glad to know I shouldn't spend any more time on this.