URL with two % not opening properly

Questions & Suggestions
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I have a macro to open certain url each day at a specific time. The url has two % signs in it (I can’t share the url for security reasons). This seems to be causing problems. When keyboard maestro opens the url, it is missing one of the % signs. I am not sure how to fix the problem. Any suggestions?

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The percent sign may be getting reinterpreted by KM. In the action where you set the URL, click on the Gear icon, and see if there's any options like these:

If there are, check the one that says "Process Nothing" and see if that makes any difference.

Probably not, but that's all I can think of.

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That did it. Thank you!

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@DanThomas, brilliant! I was having a similar problem and this solved it. Thank you!

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I spoke too soon, @DanThomas. In my desperation, I created a long macro to open a new Safari window and paste the URL. Your suggestion did indeed work. I then returned to my first choice, "New Safari Window" in order to make the script more compact. Unfortunately, there is no option in this macro to not pre-process the text. I can certainly keep the multi-step macro, but it would be nice to just have it done in one step. Any suggestions?

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Have you tried setting a variable to the entire URL, then using that variable in the New Safari Window action?

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@DanThomas. I tried that and still got the same post-processing problem. I also tried using regex-like escapes. I tried replacing "%" with "%%" as well as "%". Still no luck.

I can live with the three-step process, it just looks odd and relies on the fact that a new window happens to have the cursor in the URL field.

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Perhaps @peternlewis can add some insight into this.

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Ugh, and my next step in the macro is to fill in the password with "Open 1Password Bookmark". This action causes another tab to open, exhibiting the post-processing problem.

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Well, I guess you will be happy to see the next version then:

  • Support token processing options in the various web browser actions.

In the mean time, you will have to double all the percent characters in the URL (replace any % character with %%.

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@peternlewis I am indeed looking forward to the next version!

Your suggestion for using "%%" does indeed work to get the correct login page displaying. The 1Password option does not want to cooperate, though. I have a New Safari Tab action using your suggestion, followed by an "Open 1Pasword Bookmark". At the end, I have two tabs, one the correct unfilled login page, and another tab where the URL has not been processed properly.

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The Open 1Password Bookmark action only works with older versions of 1Password (pre-7.0 I believe).

The next version of Keyboard Maestro should work with 1Password 7.x.

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@peternlewis that's good, but I am using an older version:

1Password
Version 6.8.9 (689000)
Mac App Store
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I'm not sure then what the problem might be.