Open App instead of Web Browser

PopClip Extensions
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I love PopClip extensions for using ChatGPT, Perplexity, etc., but I would rather open the installed app instead of the corresponding web page. Is there a way to do this?

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There exists an extension for this: ChatGPT App — PopClip Extensions

However, it doesn’t work properly, so I unlisted it. If anyone can improve it (I suspect it will need AppleScript for full UI scripting… or if you know of a proper URL scheme for the ChatGPT app), I will gladly accept a pull request.

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thx - I am especially interested in Perplexity and Claude.

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For Peplexity it’s easy because they have a nice simple URL scheme. You can use this snippet:

# popclip
name: perplexity
icon: iconify:simple-icons:perplexity
url: perplexity-app://search?q=***

(The above block is an extension snippet — select it then click “Install Extension” in PopClip.)

No sure if there is a similarly easy equivalent for Claude.

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thx - works great. Any comments on this tool? GitHub - orefalo/LLM_Superset.popclipext

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It looks good to me. It’s not for the Claude app, but for the API. Similar extensions have been made for various AI purposes, and I’ve seen many on GitHub. I’d like to encourage that further, and I appreciate that people are customizing according to their needs.

I want to improve PopClip to provide better infrastructure to support such extensions and add functionality for them to use, such as:

  • Ability to duplicate extensions with different settings/names/icons
  • Submenus/drill down/prompt for input
  • Better output previews

I also want to improve the official “OpenAI Chat” extension to become more of a “General AI Tool,” allowing for different API models and greater configurability. Once the extension duplication feature is shipped, the need for custom coding of extensions should decrease, as we can then just have “one for all” and configure multiple instances.

For now, I am focusing on improvements to PopClip itself and leaving extensions mostly in the hands of users.

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thx, sounds good to me. I am also experimenting with the
GitHub - laurensent/InstantLingua: InstantLingua – LLM-Powered PopClip Extension for Translation & Writing. Powered by multiple AI providers: Grok, Claude, and Gemini. extension with some success

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I’ve rolled out the Perplexity snippet above to the directory: Perplexity App — PopClip Extensions

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thx - I use it daily …

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