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How to open a tab in Safari, when already in Safari?
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I have a script here that runs google image search on whatever URL is in clipboard.
It works perfectly **in Pythonista. **But I want it to work from within Safari (That means from Safari->'Run Pythonista Script'->'My script.py'.
It will not open the tab if run in this way from Safari. Is there a way to make this work?
My code is simply:
import clipboard import webbrowser def is_url(image_url): ''' Accepts a url [string]. Returns True if url is valid. ''' try: return image_url.startswith('http://') except: print 'Invalid URL.' return False def create_url(image_url): ''' Accepts an image_url [string]. Returns search by image URL. ''' search_url = 'https://www.google.co.uk/searchbyimage?&image_url=' try: search_url += image_url except: print 'Could not create URL from clipboard.' return search_url def main(): image_url = clipboard.get() if is_url(image_url): search_url = create_url(image_url) webbrowser.open('safari-' + search_url) print 'Done.' if __name__ == '__main__': main()```
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When you run Pythonista in the sharing extension, some functions are not available, like webbrowser...
see hereBut you can use:
from objc_util import nsurl,UIApplication app = UIApplication.sharedApplication() URL = 'https://www.google.co.uk/searchbyimage?&image_url=' app.openURL_(nsurl(URL))
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Thank you. It works very well!
How would I know how to do this without your post though? Should I be reading the objective C iOS api from Apple, or something?
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I had found my-self, months ago, by asking on this forum...
It contains a lot of useful informations from some guru's