Opening a URL in "Google Chat" app

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I'm trying to make a macro to open the appropriate Google Chat space for the current project folder i'm in in finder. Having issues opening the chat space URL in the google Chat App, which is a chrome "wrapper" of sorts.

Clicking on one of these URLS from inside the app opens the appropriate space.

The best I've been able to do is use a found image to click this little button in the URL bar of chrome once the window opens, but I'd like to use this macro on multiple chrome profiles, and the transparency and color differences will prevent me from getting consistent results with a found image click.

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I've tried the Open URL action, but all it does it activate the app.

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I've also tried this applescript, which does the same, just activates the app.

tell application "Keyboard Maestro Engine" to set theURL to getvariable "URLtoOpen"

tell application "Google Chat"
	open location theURL
end tell

Any other ideas of what to try? I'll probably end up trying to script a click on that button, but there's so many variables with the chrome window i'd prefer something else

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Something like Choosy or OpenIn (also available through SetApp), maybe? Leave the "Open a URL" action on "Default Application" and let the utility route it to Google Chat.

There are probably alternatives to those -- they're just the two that always spring to mind.

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Thanks for these, they look like cool apps, for this I ended up figuring out that you can tab to that button in the URL bar, so I was able to just add "Command-L" - "tab" - "space" and it activates the chat app.

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