Filter system clipboard to percent-encode a URI component

Plug In Actions
1

Filter system clipboard to encode URI component.zip (5.2 KB)

Custom Keyboard Maestro Plug-in

NAME

  • Filter system clipboard with encodeURIComponent()

VERSION

  • 0.1

SYNOPSIS

  • A sister function for the built-in Filter Clipboard with Percent Encode for URL.

  • The other action encodes only what is required to make a simply-formed URI string compliant under RFC 3986.

  • This action, in contrast, escapes all characters except the following:

    • alphabetic
    • decimal digits
    • - _ . ! ~ * ' ( )

  • It is essentially a wrapper for an applications of the standard JavaScript function encodeURIComponent() to the system clipboard.

REQUIREMENTS

  • Yosemite
    • The underlying script is written in Javascript for Applications

INSTALLATION

  • Drag the .zip file onto the Keyboard Maestro icon in the OS X toolbar.
  • (if updating a previous version of the action, first manually remove the previous copy from the custom actions folder)
    • ~/Library/Application Support/Keyboard Maestro/Keyboard Maestro Actions

CONTACT

Standalone JavaScript for Applications equivalent:

(function () {
	var a = Application.currentApplication(),
		strClip = (
			a.includeStandardAdditions = true,
			a
		).theClipboard({
			as: 'string'
		});

	return strClip ? encodeURIComponent(strClip) : '';
})();
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This is great.
Can you please modify to accept other inputs apart from the clipboard including text tokens and variables?

3

I’m glad that seems useful.

I’ll probably leave it as it is for the moment, for compatibility with the built-in action, but you can always precede it with a set Clipboard to (Text|Variable) action to make use of text tokens and variables.

4

I am of the opinion that the use of the clipboard slows down actions compared to the use of variables. The good thing is we now have a working percent encode action which can be easily be integrated into a macro.

5
6

Beautiful. Thanks for the great work.
Just noticed a bug in the “Encode URI Component”. It frequently gives a blank clipboard while the earlier one, filter clipboard for percent encode gives correct results. What may be responsible?
I noticed it while trying it on “{“version”:0.8,“agent”:“Chrome2Maxel”,“urls”:[{“href”:“https://forum.keyboardmaestro.com/uploads/default/original/2X/8/85f71074117dac7a56647fe941e1fe20bebd5969.zip",“title”:"your browser”}]}”

7

Thanks – probably the difference between single and multi-line strings in the input – I’ll take a look later today

8

Updated – does that seem better with multi-line strings ?

9

Yes, it works well! Thanks for the prompt response and great work in record time!