Native-opener

A tool to register custom URI handlers on Linux, Windows and macOS.

Demo

Cf. demo project

How it works

• Native-opener saves in your OS config file that it should call a Go wrapper when it receives myapp://myfile.pdf

• This wrapper handles extracting arguments like myfile.pdf and passes them to the application you specified during URI registration

Installation

Quick Install (Recommended)

# Install both required binaries
go install github.com/Minizilla/Native-opener/cmd/nopn@master
go install github.com/Minizilla/Native-opener/cmd/uri-wrapper@master

This will install:

• nopn - The main command to register URI handlers
• uri-wrapper - The wrapper that handles URI calls (automatically found by nopn)

Manual Build

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/Minizilla/Native-opener.git
cd native-opener

# Build the tools
go build -o native-opener ./cmd/nopn
go build -o uri-wrapper ./cmd/uri-wrapper

Usage

Verify Installation

# Check that both commands are available
nopn
uri-wrapper

Both commands will show their usage information when called without arguments.

Register a URI handler

nopn myapp /path/to/your/program/to/execute

Use the URI

When someone clicks on myapp://myfile.pdf, your program will be launched with myfile.pdf as an argument.