solved view-source of any URL in Chrome

[Romain]

Hey there,

 

I'm trying to create a basic workflow to open the source code of any URL in Chrome. Here's the workflow: https://jmp.sh/lOdx57Y

 

I've tried 

view-source:{query}

in the Open URL object URL filed but it doesn't work. I get a blank page.

 

Any hints or any existing workflow for that? I couldn't find any...

Edited July 18, 2022 by Romain

[vitor]

Welcome @Romain,

 

Here’s a Workflow for it, with the same keyword as yours. Tested only with Brave, but their AppleScript dictionary is the same.

Simply asking macOS to open the URL (open -a) wasn’t working, neither was changing it on the page with JavaScript (location.href). Seems like it might be a deliberate decision on their part, as with Safari it works (well, it tries to open the page but Safari doesn‘t use view-source:). The solution was to tell it to open a new tab with the URL via JXA.

[Romain]

Thanks Vitor! That's perfect, it works 🙏