I came across a program, lincastor than can change the default handling of URLs. I am trying to create a macro that will download a magnet link to my seedbox.
The shell script in the app launches my macro but I have no idea how to pass the URL variable across to the macro. How do I achieve this?
Version 7 will let you pass a parameter when you invoke a macro via AppleScript.
Until then, you need to stash the URL somewhere the macro can get it. For example, write it to a file /tmp/url-for-km.txt, and then have the macro read that file into a variable.
Or write it to a Keyboard Maestro variable.
That looks easy enough.
But keep mind that LinCastor is beta software that hasn't been updated for over 6 months.
-Chris
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Thanks. Is there any software with similar functionality that is stable?
I want to trigger a macro automatically for any safari web address containing http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov .
How do I write it to a variable name. When I tried:
echo $URL >> $KMVAR_variable_magnet
I kept getting an ambiguous redirect error.
Hey Mirizzi,
I suspect that you can change the HOSTS file on your system to accomplish that.
These links give you a little idea of what can be done:
I have not done this, so I cannot give any advice based on experience.
It seems to me that Peter has a url-scheme for Keyboard Maestro, so it might be easy to redirect the domain in question to a km-macro-url.
But you'll have to ask Peter.
-Chris
Hey Mirizzi,
You have to know what you're doing. 
>> is trying to redirect output to a FILE and append it.
Post the whole script.
-Chris
