Safari "Open in News" (Share…) Menu Item

[BrianBaughn]

For Firefox I was able to make a keyboard shortcut to open a webpage in the News app. This is for the paywall stuff I run across while browsing. If the story is available in the News app it opens just fine.

However, I can't get a keyboard shortcut to work for Safari and I think it's because the "Share…" menu item makes a separate little selection window pop in the top center of the screen. In Firefox it's just a submenu that pops up.

Does anyone know how to get a keyboard shortcut to work on this in Safari or is this just another reason to not switch over to Safari on all of my devices?

 

[bogdanw]

I don't have News to test, you can try an Automator QuickAction like this https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/automator-to-open-url-link-in-chrome.2346342/post-31137590

 

[bogdanw]

It's easier than expected
QuickAction in Automator, shortcut in System Settings - Keyboard - Keyboard Shortcuts - Services - General


AppleScript

on run {input, parameters}
    tell application "News" to open location input
end run

 

[BrianBaughn]

Trying that out…it opens the page in Firefox for some reason.

Edit: I guess it's just opening it in the default browser.

Edit2: After monkeying around it started working. I had to add to the applescript to get News to come to the front.

Edit3: It's not working properly again.

 

[bogdanw]

I got News working in a virtual machine and it appears to have a bug. Some articles open in Safari, instead of News. Is this the expected behavior?
Video

 

[BrianBaughn]

I got News working in a virtual machine and it appears to have a bug. Some articles open in Safari, instead of News. Is this the expected behavior?
Video
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I've never seen it do that (in Sequoia).