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open url in safari from pythonista
# a bit of a hack
# by Cormac Relf - cormacrelf.com - @cormacrelf
# Opens the url on the clipboard in Safari
# by opening Google Chrome with an x-callback-url
# that takes you to the same url in Safari.
# I guess you could just open it in googlechrome://
import webbrowser
import clipboard
import console
import urllib
import re
url = clipboard.get()
url = urllib.quote_plus(url)
callback = "googlechrome-x-callback://x-callback-url/open/?url=YOURL&x-source=Safari&x-success=YOURL"
callback = re.sub("YOURL", url, callback)
#console.clear()
#print(callback)
webbrowser.open(callback)
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