Trying to use handlr to open the web browser in app mode.

[Samueru-sama]

I have this in my handlr config:

[[handlers]]
exec = "bravepiped %u" # Uses desktop entry field codes
terminal = false # Set to true for terminal apps, false for GUI apps (optional; defaults to false)
regexes = ['(https://)?(www\.)?youtu(be\.com|\.be)/*.'] # Use single-quote literal strings

bravepiped is the brave browser using the app mode, which lets the browser launch a website without the browser decorations (url bar, bookmarks, etc) it only displays the website and nothing else.

The bravepiped script contains this, which launches the application:

#!/bin/sh

brave --app=https://pi.ggtyler.dev/feed --class="Piped" --user-data-dir="$XDG_CONFIG_HOME"/BraveSoftware/Brave-Piped $@

I'm trying to use that to replace freetube, which is an electron app that does the same but with brave I can use my browser extensions on top (specially vimium).

The issue that I have is that it doesn't work lol, when handlr opens a link with bravepiped it only opens the application and not the link.

If I replace the --app=https://pi.ggtyler.dev/feed for --app=$@ it almost works, but the application opens on youtube instead of on the piped instance, and for some reason I don't get redirected to the instance by opening links while in youtube.

So the solution would be something like this:

--app=https://pi.ggtyler.dev/feed/$@

And I would need to find a way so that only the text after the .com/ in the youtube link gets fed into $@.

Any ideas?

[Samueru-sama]

Solution found, I was watching the last vid of distrotube and he did an example on how to print the last field after the / with awk, that is all I neede to do lol:

#!/bin/sh

filename=$(echo "$@" | awk -F / '{print $NF}')

# Launch Brave with the specified URL
brave --app="https://pi.ggtyler.dev/$filename" --class="BravePiped" --user-data-dir="$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/BraveSoftware/Brave-Piped"