Questions tagged [url]
Uniform Resource Locator. The address of a resource on a network (Internet) that includes the protocol, the domain
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How to retract "always allow" safari permission for opening app?
When opening a Zoom link in Safari, I'm typically prompted to allow Safari to open the Zoom app. Recently, with Safari 17, there's now an option to "Always Allow" Safari to open Zoom to ...
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How can I make file:// links open the file instead of revealing it in the Finder?
I can create a hyperlink within a document in e.g. TextEdit, and set the URL of the hyperlink to file:///path/to/my-file.txt.
When I click on the hyperlink, I want my-file.txt to open in the default ...
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Using a URL scheme to the apple translation app, can I get text from anki, and then when I click on URL open translate app and translate?
Sorry for the stupid wording, I'm really new to this.
I'm trying to essentially create a URL to the apple translate app, so that when I click on the URL it automatically translates text from my anki ...
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How Do I Fully Flush Cached Redirects From Safari?
I have a device with a web-based control panel, and accidentally set it to redirect all http pages to https, even though some don't work over https. Although I've since corrected this, Safari seems to ...
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Select all hyperlinks in Pages
Is it possible to select all of the hyperlinks in a document?
I want to change the colours for every link in the document but it seems a bit odd that i have to go through all of them manually.
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Complete documentation of the iOS Settings app's URL scheme
The iOS Settings app provides an URL scheme (prefs:) which can be used to open the app directly on a particular page from other apps, in particular, shortcut apps such as Launch Center.
There are ...
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How to set Mail.app to always open URL's in the external browser in the background?
I'm on Mountain Lion and in Apple Mail whenever I click a link in an email it opens my browser in front of Mail.
I'd like to keep reading the email and open all links behind Mail, then switch to my ...
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Always show URLs in Safari's Tab Overview
In the Tabs overview, notice that we see the page title but not the page URL.
In the screenshot above, I highlight three tabs with identical titles which are on completely different servers at ...
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Scheme is removed from url in safari
If I call a website with an unknown "tld" like .loc, then safari is removing the scheme (in this case http://). This means that Safari will do a quick search, if I want to change something ...
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Finder does not open URL to file path
in the past, I used to click an URL to a local file in any application (e.g., TextEdit) and the finder or Path Finder would open.
An example for such an URL is file:///Users/username/Library/Mobile%...
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Unable to redirect Salesforce links to Salesforce App
I'm unable to open the Salesforce links in Salesforce App. The links are directly opening in Safari, but they need to open in the Salesforce App rather than the browser.
Is there some settings ...
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Can QR codes be used to invite someone to send me an iMessage?
I have tried messages//emailaddress but I am told that it just opens the Messages app on iPhones, not a new message to the user (on my Mac it opens that specific users thread).
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URL-scheme details for Reminders application
Update:
jeeyul's answer points out that Reminders-related URL schemes are undocumented, which would likely cause rejection of apps that use them when submitted to the macOS/iOS App Store.
For ...
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How to insert a link in Pages which allow me to redirect user to specific sections in the document?
This is the part of my document:
I would like to add links for line:
More info under points 3, 4 and 5.
I mean the same points as it is linked in Table of contents:
When I try to add link, there is ...
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Can I create a desktop shortcut to a website without going through the browser?
I'd like to add a desktop shortcut to a URL that will show up on the desktop for all users of the Mac. The only methods I've found for creating one involves navigating to the desired website in a ...
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How to disable link previews and link dropdowns [duplicate]
Since updating to Ventura, whenever I paste or type a URL into an email draft, Mail app now automatically crowds my message with large content previews, it pings websites and downloads images to add ...
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iPhone shortcut to check whether URL is already open in Chrome
Because I use Chrome as my default browser (which does not allow for bookmarks in the Home Screen), I have created a bookmark using the Shortcuts app and the following commands:
Open URL in Chrome
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Google Chrome won't open URL files by double click
I recently tried to open a URL link I saved onto my desktop by double clicking it, but it will not open correctly. If I DRAG & DROP the file into chrome works fine.
The code of the file is as ...
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How to add hyperlinks to local files in Numbers?
How do I add a hyperlink to a local file?
I know how to add a hyperlink to a website, so I tried something like file:///Users/MyUser/Documents/Invoices/Some%20Stuff.pdf
However, adding this path to ...
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Open URL Containing Emoji Using AppleScript
This AppleScript creates a new email in my default mailer, but the balloon emoji (“🎈”) in the subject is converted to the question mark character (“?”).
set theURL to "mailto:<Wile.E.Coyote@...
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AppleScript & bit.ly API
New to AppleScript and coding. First Script I'm trying to compile:
Selecting and Copy URL in current Safari tab
Sending it to bit.ly
Having the shortened URL copied to clipboard
property theURL : &...
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Chrome Page Monitor equivalent for ipad
Is there an equivalent to Page Monitor or an app for iOS? Using ipad 4
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Open all youtube links with different app
I'm looking for a solution on macOS to make all youtube.com or youtu.be links automatically open in another app, decided by me, like /Applications/Brave Browser.app for example. All while keeping ...
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Output clickable link in Terminal
I want to echo a clickable URL on ZSH/Terminal. The URL corresponds to a Kibana-query, which means it includes lots of funky characters. For technical reasons, I cannot use "shortened" ...
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Make text into a link in OmniGraffle
If I have an object, such as a circle or rectangle, with a label (text inside), how can I make turn a word of that text into link, a hypertext web link with a backing URL?
For example, within the ...
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Is there a way to invoke a Spotlight search from another Mac app?
I'd like to be able to do something like spotlight://tag:Red from other apps to open a Spotlight search in Finder. Is it possible, somehow?
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I found and tried AppleScripts/AppleScript applet for ...
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How do I hyperlink 'text' within a note in the macOS Notes app?
If you copy and paste a link from Safari into the Notes app, it is pasted as text that is also hyperlinked. However, I haven't been able to find a way to do this in the Notes app directly.
I've ...
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How to enlarge Safari's smart search bar?
Is it possible to enlarge / to broaden the smart search bar as well as the suggestion box in Safari (>=15.5) when 'compact' tab layout is selected in the settings?
Some websites use pretty URLs to ...
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How to manually create a working .webloc file?
So I created a .webloc file using a .vncloc file as a template (standard xml/plist format), but instead of opening in a Safari window, it is downloading the html of the website into a file.
My goal ...
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How to download a list of URLs saved in a text file on iOS? [closed]
I have a list of URLs saved in a text file separated by spaces, and I would like to download every single one to my iPad as a zip file.
How can I do that?
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Why doesn't Safari copy URL parameters of a link when using the 'copy' from menu?
I found a strange behaviour on Safari that seems to be affecting URL sharing.
If I copy the url by selecting all coping it I can share the full link. Such as www.somesite.com/somepage?params=somename&...
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Saving webpage as clear, good PDF on Mac
I'm trying to save a webpage as a PDF on my Mac and it's horrible! Using Safari with the File > Print option seems to be the best, because I have to have the URL of the page displayed, however this ...
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How can I open Windows network links on Mac OS X?
I started using a Mac recently in a workplace where most people use Windows. We share with each other links to work files that exist on some server here. So I may get a URL via email that looks like ...
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Safari inserts "localhost" in URLs with three slashes after the scheme
Safari seems to be the only browser that differently handles URL's that have three slashes after the scheme.
For example typing https:///google.com in the address bar results in the URL being ...
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Apple mail can't open links in Firefox because Classic environment is no longer supported
I use Firefox as my default browser on macOS Catalina version 10.15.7. Yesterday I used brew to upgrade Firefox to the latest version:
brew update
brew upgrade firefox
After the upgrade, Firefox ...
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How to copy URL with page title from Safari to Pages
In earlier versions of Safari and Pages drag&drop of an URL from Safari to Pages resulted in a link with the page title as the text, and the URL as a link "behind" it. It still works that way in ...
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Clipboard does not copy URL properly
I am trying to copy this url:
https://preview.themeforest.net/item/byron-construction-and-engineering-wordpress-theme/full_screen_preview/28520387?_ga=2.75926102.272258780.1641055757-495160342....
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macOS: How to open a local HTML file with URL parameters
I want to start a Kantu web macro from the command line on Mac. Essentially this is as simple as opening the Chrome or Firefox browser with a local HTML page (which contains the macro code). All works ...
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Is it possible to create a link/URL to a particular mailbox folder in Mail?
I would like to link to a particular email folder so that when I click a URL file in Finder or URL link in another application (such as Notes), it opens the email folder in Mail for me.
Is this ...
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How can I make Apple Mail show the URL (in mails) when I hover over a link?
There is a related question for Safari but I am interested in a solution for Mail. The ⌘View menu.
I am using OS X 10.10.5, and I would really like to see the real full link I would follow, ...
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mac OS/iOS FindMy URL scheme: Possible to open a specific person/device/item directly?
Using the URL schemes
findmy://friend or friends
findmy://devices
findmy://items
opens the FindMy.app with the respective tab.
But has anyone figured out whether it's possible to also activate/mark ...
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How to play .m3u playlist on iOS, given its URL?
When clicking on a URL for an M3U playlist on an iPhone, it opens in Safari as a blank, gray webpage, and no audio plays.
How can I play an M3U playlist on an iPhone, given the URL to the playlist? ...
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Move set of open Safari windows/tabs to another Mac
I have a bunch of windows & tabs open in Safari. I want to view all the same windows and tabs on another Mac.
☞ Is there a set of URLs or bookmarks somewhere used by Safari to remember open ...
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Email link to a local file (e.g. file://User/...)
This has been asked before, but the only solution I've seen requires the recipient to install some software (e.g. lincastor), which doesn't work for me. Any better ideas?
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Stop Apple Notes in iPad auto creating unnecessary hyperlink on handwritten text
This is happening sometimes when I start drawing on ipad notes
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Open a URL with parameterized query arguments (URL-encode)
I need to invoke a custom URL for a macOS GUI app from a terminal (shell) command.
I also need to be able to pass arguments to the URL's query section.
It might look like this:
path=/Volumes/MyDisk
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Create hyperlink on Mail.app/Notes.app on iOS
I am using an iPad with the Smart Keyboard, but my question applied to all devices running iOS.
How do I create hyperlinked text in apps such as the Mail.app or Notes.app on iOS? I tried using the ...
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How can I edit a long URL in the Safari browser on my iPad 2?
I'd like to be able to edit a long url in the Safari browser on my iPad 2 running iOS 8.1.1. I can select it, but I can't scroll through it to add or delete something on the end. I generally copy/...
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How to save a bookmarklet link when using safari?
How can I save the link of a bookmarklet in iPad’s safari? For example any of the bookmarklets in the following website? When I touch and hold, an option to save the link is not offered.
http://...
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Has Safari stopped forwarding link URLs to system services when using the link's context menu?
I seem to recall being able to right-click a link in Safari and use a system service from the context menu in order to send the actual link target URL to the service in question.
Nowadays when right-...
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