Drafts Directory: open markdown url

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created by @FlohGro / more on my Blog

open markdown url

This action will search the current draft for markdown formatted urls e.g.:

- [Google](www.gogle.com) this is famous search engine
- text before [Bear](bear://) and text after
- [text in brackets, no problem] [OneNote](onenote://open)
- [Google](www.gogle.com)
- [BBC](www.bbc.co.uk)

Depending on how many URLs are available in the draft the action will either

open the only existing link immediately
display a prompt if multiple URLs are present in the draft - you can select by the given title which URL should be opened.

The URLs are opened with Safari by default - this will also enable „app links“ e.g. „drafts://open..)

The action was inspired by this thread in the forums - credits to @RoyRogers for the code examples - I used some of them in the action

[Configuration]

no configuration needed

[Usage]

run this action whenever you want to open a (markdown) URL from a draft. You don’t need to enter link mode in the editor - if only one link is present in the draft this action will speed up your workflow. You can even set a keyboard shortcut to the action or add it to your action bar if you frequently want to open URLs from your drafts.

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Install

Steps

script

// open markdown url

const content = draft.content;

// regel to match markdown urls "[]()”
let regex = /\[([^\[]+)\]\(([^\[]+)\)/g
// prompt to select the url to open
var pSelUrl = Prompt.create();
// flag to indische if any url was found.
var foundUrlCounter = 0;
// if only one url is in the note - open it directly - first url will be stored in this variable
var firstURL = '';
var urlToOpen;


let foundUrl = findAndStoreUrls();

if (foundUrl) {
  urlToOpen = getUrlToOpen();
} else {
  let message = "no markdown url '[..](..)' found in draft";
  context.cancel(message);
  app.displayInfoMessage(message);
}

if (foundUrl) {
  if (urlToOpen) {
    openURL(urlToOpen);
  } else {
    let message = "no url to open selected";
    context.cancel(message);
    app.displayInfoMessage(message);
  }
}

// functions

// stores the found urls in the prompt as buttons
function findAndStoreUrls() {
  var matches = [...content.matchAll(regex)]
  if (matches) {
    for (match of matches) {
      foundUrlCounter++;
      let description = match[1];
      let url = match[2];
      // add "http://" if the url is no callback url and just witten as domain.
      if (!url.match(/:\/\//)) {
        url = 'http://' + url;
      }
      // add the found url to the prompt
      pSelUrl.addButton(description, url);
      if (foundUrlCounter == 1) {
        firstURL = url;
      }
    }
  }
  if (foundUrlCounter == 0) {
    return false;
  } else {
    return true;
  }
}

function getUrlToOpen() {
  if (foundUrlCounter == 1) {
    return firstURL;
  } else if (foundUrlCounter > 0) {
    pSelUrl.title = "select URL:";

    var didSelect = pSelUrl.show();

    if (didSelect) {
      return pSelUrl.buttonPressed;
    }
  }
}

function openURL(url) {
  let success = app.openURL(url, false);
  if (!success) {
    let message = "failed to open url: " + url;
    app.displayErrorMessage(message);
    context.fail(message);
  }

}

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