Embedding links to taks

Automation OmniFocus Automation
#1

I’m trying to create a shortcut that opens any resources attached to a task. That may be a folder on my Mac, a Visual Studio Code project or a website. For the folder and Visual Studio code project.

What I found the easiest is to add any such resource to to a task or project’s LinkedFileURL array and my script simply uses the .open() function on the first of entry.

task.linkedFileURLs[0].open()

So, I also need to then be able to easily add such resources. I’m having trouble doing so with URL to websites.
I have the following four ways to add a URL to a project:

  1. Have the URL in a note
  2. Create a Web Internet Location file and link to it
  3. Create a Web Internet Location and embed it
  4. Add the url as an attachment

With method 2, I can easily view it in safari using the same .open() method, but I now have to keep a file on my Mac.

Any suggestion for how I could add a URL to a tasks and make easily available to open via a script? (I am trying to avoid having to parse the note to find available links…)

#2

Not sure but could you do this using Brett Terpstras “Bunch” Link. You would then only need an embedded link to the Bunch file, a simple text file no OF scripting needed.

Hook app I guess could also do this.

It may save you a lot of work reinventing the wheel?

#3

I will have to look at the Hook app one day, but for now, I simply added in the URL in the notes and I’ll open the first URL included this way

    const re = /\b(?:https?:\/\/)(\S+)\b/g
    if (task.note && re.test(task.note)) {
        const link = task.note.match(re)[0]
        const url = URL.fromString(link)
        url.open()
        return
    }