Autohotkey -- click link, alter link, launch link

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I'm trying to create an .ahk script that will make life easier with Notion. My colleagues toss Notion links everywhere, and I'd like a script to force these links to open in the app and not in the browser.

I know that I need to somehow automatically alter the link from 'https' to 'notion', but my script doesn't work like I expected.

Can anyone help me avoid this extra step? Thanks in advance. Code below:

!LButton::
Send, ^c
Clipboard := StrReplace(Clipboard, "https", "notion", 1)
SendInput, %Clipboard%
return

Edit: I can add that the second part of the code works as I want if the link is already in the clipboard. I seem not to be able to correctly automate copying the link to the clipboard when I run this hot key script.

notion-api autohotkey hyperlink
1 Answers

I don't know what Notion is, so I'll have a bit of trouble giving the best answer, but this advice will hopefully fix your problem:

Firstly, it's good to use ClipWait(docs) when sending ctrl+c and then working with the copied stuff.

Then you seem to be missing one arguments from the StrReplace()(docs) function. You're specifying 1 to the OutputVarCount parameter.

Then you should specify the text send mode for your send command to avoid problem with ^+!#{} characters.
Or a bit better, you could set the text to the clipboard and send ctrl+v.
Or even better, launch the app and pass the link in as an argument, assuming it supports that.

Code:

!LButton::
    Clipboard := ""
    SendInput, ^c
    ClipWait
    Clipboard := StrReplace(Clipboard, "https", "notion", , 1)
    SendInput, % "{Text}" Clipboard         ;send as input
    SendInput, ^v                           ;or paste
    Run, % "notion.exe """ Clipboard """"   ;or pass in as commandline argument
return

EDIT:
Another approach

!LButton::
    Clipboard := ""
    Click, Right    ;open right click menu
    Sleep, 50       ;wait a bit so the menu opens
    SendInput, e    ;shortcut for "copy to clipboard"
    ClipWait
    Clipboard := StrReplace(Clipboard, "https", "notion", , 1)
    MsgBox, % Clipboard
return
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