Can't Open Obsidian Links with Keyboard Maestro

Questions & Suggestions
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Hi all

i have tried to open obsidian links via Keyboard Maestro like i do with many other apps (Devonthink,Omnifocus etc) yet i keep getting an error. is there something special regarding the obsidian URL's?

here is an example link to a specific note

obsidian://open?vault=Food&file=_%F0%9F%A7%ADMOC%2FCOOK

and how i try to launch it

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yet it never works

any clue?
thx all

Z

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An Obsidian link to an Obsidian outline in my Documents folder with Default Application worked as expected. I copied the link to the clipboard in Obsidian and pasted in into the Open URL field in Keyboard Maestro v9. Format is the same as yours. So I have no idea why yours isn't working.

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ha thx @mrpasini

so bizarre, it dosent seem to work on my machine

to be clear this is what i do

i copy a link to a specific obsidian markdown file

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and get the link

obsidian://open?vault=Food&file=cookingQ%2FThe%20Egyptian%20%22Mac%20and%20Cheese%22%20Everyone%20Will%20Love

then in Keyboard Maestro i paste it into the open URL macro with the with default application

when i try to launch the macro i get an error (this is from the log):

2021-10-11 08:47:04 Open URL failed with invalid URL “obsidian://open?vault=Food&file=cookingQ%2FThe%20Egyptian%20%22Mac%20and%20Cheese%22%20Everyone%20Will%20Love” In macro “G:Cook MOC” (while executing Open URL “obsidian://open?vault=Food&file=cookingQ%2FThe%20Egyptian%20%22Mac%20and%20Cheese%22%20Everyone%20Will%20Love”).

to be clear if i paste this in drafts and open the link it works well

is this a text encoding issue?

thx a lot!

Z

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KM is probably getting tripped up on the percentage signs, since it also uses them for token syntax. What happens if you set the Open URL action to process nothing?

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If that doesn't work, you can also try setting the URL to a variable and opening it that way (make sure the Open URL action processes text normally again first):

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Ha! it was the processing indeed!

thx so much @gglick for helping with that!!

best

Z

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Yep, that's what I did, too. My link looks a little different:

obsidian://open?vault=Obsidian%20Notes&file=Nessuno%20Outline

And I don't see that orange warning on the URL that your screen shot shows. Both URLs are encoded. From the error message, yours seems to go beyond a reference to a file, though. You might truncate that to see if it helps.

FWIW, I have Process Normally selected (the default).