| openurl – Node.js module for opening URLs | |
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| openurl is a Node.js module for opening a URL via the operating system. This will usually trigger actions such as: | |
| - http URLs: open the default browser | |
| - mailto URLs: open the default email client | |
| - file URLs: open a window showing the directory (on OS X) | |
| Example interaction on the Node.js REPL: | |
| > require("openurl").open("http://rauschma.de") | |
| > require("openurl").open("mailto:john@example.com") | |
| You can generate emails as follows: | |
| require("openurl").mailto(["john@example.com", "jane@example.com"], | |
| { subject: "Hello!", body: "This is\nan automatically sent email!\n" }); | |
| Install via npm: | |
| npm install openurl | |
| I’m not yet terribly familiar with implementing npm packages, so any feedback is welcome | |
| (especially experience reports on Windows and Linux, which I can’t test on). | |
| Related reading: | |
| - [Write your shell scripts in JavaScript, via Node.js](http://www.2ality.com/2011/12/nodejs-shell-scripting.html) |