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BogTheMudWing
/ Open Selected.py
Created
August 24, 2025 20:19
I have this AutoKey script bound to Meta+S to take the current/last selected text and open it. If it's a URL (starting with https://, rtp://, m3u://, etc.), it will be opened with xdg-open. Otherwise, it will plug the query into Google as a search.
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| import re | |
| import subprocess | |
| import os | |
| text = os.popen('xsel').read() # grab selected text | |
| url_pattern = re.compile(r'^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9+.-]*://\S+') | |
| if url_pattern.match(text): | |
| subprocess.run(['xdg-open', text]) | |
| else: |