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golden zenithBOT Jun 30, 2024, 11:01 AM

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@wheat pelican

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wheat pelican Jun 30, 2024, 11:01 AM

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br?

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what

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Oh

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That makes sense

cosmic spindle Jun 30, 2024, 11:01 AM

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It looks like a discord link

wheat pelican Jun 30, 2024, 11:01 AM

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Fair

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It's just the custom Discord URL protocols

cosmic spindle Jun 30, 2024, 11:02 AM

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Yah, that's funny, you're cool just maybe space it or something

wheat pelican Jun 30, 2024, 11:02 AM

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discord :// -/message-requests

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ok

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ty

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basically I'm trying to execute a url protocol in python

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i tried with os.system but it doesnt work

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the stackoverflow post suggested that i use start <x> but it doesnt look like i can provide the extra url params

cosmic spindle Jun 30, 2024, 11:03 AM

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A url isn't a command

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That os.system is to run commands (executables), just like you would at your command prompt/shell

wheat pelican Jun 30, 2024, 11:03 AM

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Fair

cosmic spindle Jun 30, 2024, 11:04 AM

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I don't work with discord's APIs so I'm not really familiar with this stuff.

wheat pelican Jun 30, 2024, 11:05 AM

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nah but like

cosmic spindle Jun 30, 2024, 11:05 AM

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What are you trying to accomplish?

wheat pelican Jun 30, 2024, 11:05 AM

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this is for any URL protocol

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discord is just an example

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at the moment im trying to run a roblox protocol

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roblox-player://placeId=1

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and it automatically launches roblox to that place ID

sharp fox Jun 30, 2024, 11:05 AM

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Well then you need to determine which application can interpret those URLs

wheat pelican Jun 30, 2024, 11:06 AM

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Wait

cosmic spindle Jun 30, 2024, 11:06 AM

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'Run a Roblox protocol': what do you mean by this? You want to open a webpage to a url?

sharp fox Jun 30, 2024, 11:06 AM

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And then figure out how to launch that program passing it that URL

wheat pelican Jun 30, 2024, 11:06 AM

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cosmic spindle 'Run a Roblox protocol': what do you mean by this? You want to open a webpage to...

hold look

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wheat pelican Jun 30, 2024, 11:07 AM

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sharp fox Well then you need to determine which application can interpret those URLs

are u saying that essentially these URL parameters

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are just like

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params to the executable?

sharp fox Jun 30, 2024, 11:08 AM

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Well, I'm not sure on the implementation details to be frank

cosmic spindle Jun 30, 2024, 11:08 AM

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wheat pelican are u saying that essentially these URL parameters

What do you expect to happen with that roblox-player://placeId=1 example?

sharp fox Jun 30, 2024, 11:09 AM

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I think explorer.exe should be able to handle the URL iirc

wheat pelican Jun 30, 2024, 11:09 AM

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just open the roblox applicataion with those parameters

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bc it works with Run

sharp fox Jun 30, 2024, 11:09 AM

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It will read the registry and find the correct handler based on the protocol

wheat pelican Jun 30, 2024, 11:09 AM

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and it works with web browsers

sharp fox Jun 30, 2024, 11:09 AM

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But it's not platform agnostic

cosmic spindle Jun 30, 2024, 11:09 AM

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Yes, you could open chrome <url>, for instance

wheat pelican Jun 30, 2024, 11:09 AM

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i only need it to work on windows

sharp fox Jun 30, 2024, 11:09 AM

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If you run 'explorer.exe [URL]'

wheat pelican Jun 30, 2024, 11:10 AM

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like this?

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explorer.exe roblox://placeId=1

sharp fox Jun 30, 2024, 11:10 AM

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Yeah I think that should work

wheat pelican Jun 30, 2024, 11:10 AM

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unfortunately not

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its so odd

cosmic spindle Jun 30, 2024, 11:10 AM

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wheat pelican unfortunately not

Explain?

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Or show code, better yet

wheat pelican Jun 30, 2024, 11:11 AM

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just opens regular explorer

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without any url execution

cosmic spindle Jun 30, 2024, 11:12 AM

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I said chrome

wheat pelican Jun 30, 2024, 11:12 AM

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oh shoot

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i was answering the other dude

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ok hold

cosmic spindle Jun 30, 2024, 11:14 AM

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Tbh, I'm not sure you're going to accomplish what you want to accomplish, but: once you figure out how to do it manually, then you can use os.system. Both Roblox and discord have api's.

wheat pelican Jun 30, 2024, 11:14 AM

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they both have APIs

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but its not what i want to accomplish

sharp fox Jun 30, 2024, 11:16 AM

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wheat pelican `explorer.exe roblox://placeId=1`

Try running this from.the command kine

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And not the run box

wheat pelican Jun 30, 2024, 11:16 AM

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i tried later in the video

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tried run box, tried start explorer.exe roblox://placeId=1, tried os.system("explorer.exe roblox://placeId=1")

sharp fox Jun 30, 2024, 11:17 AM

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Ah mb

cosmic spindle Jun 30, 2024, 11:17 AM

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Yah, why do you expect that url to work?

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If it doesn't work in browser?

wheat pelican Jun 30, 2024, 11:17 AM

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because the Run window is explorer under the hood

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cosmic spindle Jun 30, 2024, 11:18 AM

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Try 'start' not 'explorer'

wheat pelican Jun 30, 2024, 11:18 AM

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start roblox://placeId=1?

cosmic spindle Jun 30, 2024, 11:18 AM

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Sure, try it from command prompt

wheat pelican Jun 30, 2024, 11:19 AM

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Works

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Wait what

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How does that work but not when I do os.system

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Wait what

cosmic spindle Jun 30, 2024, 11:19 AM

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But you never tried start with os.system

wheat pelican Jun 30, 2024, 11:19 AM

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Holy

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Thanks

cosmic spindle Jun 30, 2024, 11:19 AM

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Start is equivalent to run, explorer is the file explorer (not same as run)

wheat pelican Jun 30, 2024, 11:20 AM

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I was about to learn the internal ways Run works and ShellRunDialog and shit and then I didnt do the simplest option 😭

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Ty

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!close

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