Can't use `SafariTitle` in `Open URL` action

[peternlewis]

@ErikMH

• If I use the Open URL action in Keyboard Maestro with the string I quoted above as literal text, Open URL is rendered in bright red, presumably implying that it wants me to percent-encode the URL. Attempting to run that one-step macro sends my web browser to keyboardmaestro.com.

That is because the URL is invalid. Non-ASCII and various other characters must be encoded to make a valid URL. Specifically in this case the | symbol is invalid in the URL. A valid URL is:

smb://tv.m.h/TV%7C9/00/56/005674/

@ErikMH

If I instead percent-encode everything (except the protocol and the colon slash slash)

The Percent Encode for URL filter will lead you in the right direction, but it is for encoding individual fields in a URL, not the entire URL. You can use it to encode the | to determine that %7C is the proper encoding for the character, but you cannot encode the whole thing, the :// and . and / has meanings and they are not meant to be encoded in this context.

The | is, I believe, the only character that needs encoding in that URL.