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title: "Open URLs based on regular expressions"
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slug: "regex-based-url-opener"
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description: null
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date: 2022-04-18T17:16:08+02:00
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type: posts
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draft: true
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tags:
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- WWW
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- Zsh
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toc: true
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---
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:source-highlighter: pygments
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:idprefix:
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:experimental: true
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:toc:
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:toclevels: 2
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:url-urlhandler: https://schlomp.space/tastytea/dotfiles/src/branch/main/.local/bin/urlhandler
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:url-functions: https://schlomp.space/tastytea/dotfiles/src/branch/main/.config/zsh/functions
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:url-zshoptions: https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Options.html
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:url-zshfunctions: https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Functions.html
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:url-desktop-spec: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/
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:abbr-pcre: pass:[<abbr title='Perl Compatible Regular Expressions'>PCRE</abbr>]
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One of the shell scripts that bring me the most joy is my URL opener. I have it
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set as my default browser, so whenever I click a hyperlink somewhere it gets
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called and decides if the URL should be opened with Firefox or with another
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program. mpv for video files and YouTube URLs, a download-and-launch-viewer
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function for pictures and so on.
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== The script
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I have abbreviated the script here a bit for better readability, the full
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version is available link:{url-urlhandler}[in my dotfiles repo].
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[source,shell]
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#!/usr/bin/env zsh
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# Open URLs based on perl compatible regular expressions. Several commands can
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# be specified with ; as separator. If the URL doesn't match anything or the
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# commands are not found, use ${default_cmd}.
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setopt ERR_RETURN NO_UNSET PIPE_FAIL
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if [[ ! -v 1 ]]; then
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print -u 2 "usage: ${0} <URL> …"
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return 1
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fi
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local -a urls=(${@})
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autoload -U readwwwlog openwwwimg
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zmodload zsh/pcre
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local default_cmd="firefox"
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First, we set some essential options. `ERR_RETURN` stops execution when a
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command has a non-zero exit status, `NO_UNSET` treats non-existing variables as
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an error and `PIPE_FAIL` sets `${?}` to non-zero if any command in a pipeline
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fails. You can read more about them in the *zshoptions* man-page or in the
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link:{url-zshoptions}[online documentation].
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Next we check if `${1}` is set (we have at least 1 URL) and assign all arguments
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to the array `${urls}`. Then we autoload some function link:#helper_functions[we
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later use], load the {abbr-pcre} module and set the default browser.
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[source,shell]
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local mpv="mpv --force-window=yes"
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local -A assignments=(
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'\.(mp4|m4v|mkv|avi|webm|flv|xvid|ogv|theora|mov|wmv)$' "${mpv};vlc"
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'\.(ogg|flac|opus|m4a|wav|mp3|mid|aac|wma)$' "${mpv};vlc"
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'^https://media\.ccc\.de/v/[^/]*$' "${mpv}"
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'^https?://(www\.)?youtu(\.be|be\.com)/' "${mpv}"
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'^(gemini|gopher)://' "kristall"
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'\.(log|txt)$' "readwwwlog"
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'^https?://(www\.)?(dpaste|pastebin|irccloud)\.com/' "readwwwlog"
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'\.(webm|png|jpe?g|gif|svg|bmp|xcf)$' "openwwwimg"
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)
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Now we define the associative array `${assignments}` with the regular expression
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on the left and the command(s) to run on the right. The first command that
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exists will be run.
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[source,shell]
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local selected_cmd=${default_cmd}
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for regex cmds in ${(kv)assignments}; do
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if [[ ${urls[1]} -pcre-match ${regex} ]]; then
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for cmd in ${(s/;/)cmds}; do
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if type ${cmd%% *} >& -; then
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selected_cmd=${cmd}
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break
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fi
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done
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break
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fi
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done
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${(@s/ /)selected_cmd} ${urls}
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This loops through all regular expressions and compares it against the
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first URL (we naively assume that all supplied URLs are of the same type 😊). If
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it matches, the first command that exists is run with the URL. If nothing
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matches, the default browser we set earlier is used.
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[NOTE]
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Because commands can contain options, we split the command-strings at spaces in
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the existence check and when we run the command. This has the side-effect that
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commands can not contain spaces.
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== Helper functions
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The functions `readwwwlog` and `openwwwimage` are available in the
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link:{url-functions}[Zsh functions directory] of my dotfiles repo. Put them
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anywhere in your `${fpath}`. Learn more from the *zshmisc* man-page or the
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link:{url-zshfunctions}[online documentation]. Or you could just put them inside
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the script, like this for example:
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[source,shell]
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function openwwwimg() {
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local file="$(mktemp --suffix='.openwwwimg')"
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curl --silent --location --output ${file} ${url}
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if [[ ${?} -eq 0 ]]; then
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viewnior ${file}
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else
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firefox ${url}
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fi
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rm -f ${file}
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}
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Don't forget to remove the autoloads if you put them directly in the script.
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== Setting the script as default browser
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To set the default browser in Linux, you need to have a `.desktop` file
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(link:{url-desktop-spec}[specification]).
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[source,toml]
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[Desktop Entry]
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Type=Application
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Version=1.0
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Name=urlhandler
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Comment=Open URLs with different commands
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TryExec=urlhandler
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Exec=urlhandler %u
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Terminal=false
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Save this in `~/.local/share/applications/urlhandler.desktop` and run
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`xdg-settings set default-web-browser urlhandler.desktop`. Congratulations, you
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are ready to go! 🥳
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