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  1. @mralexgray mralexgray created this gist Oct 19, 2012.
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    Here is what you need to do to register your app for a custom URL scheme (for the example we will use a "myapp" scheme).

    1) In your Info.plist, add a new entry for CFBundleURLTypes: <key>CFBundleURLTypes</key> <array> <dict> <key>CFBundleURLName</key> <string>MyApp's URL</string> <key>CFBundleURLSchemes</key> <array> <string>myapp</string> </array> </dict> </array>

    2) Somewhere in your application's startup code (e.g. init), add this code: - (void)registerMyApp { [[NSAppleEventManager sharedAppleEventManager] setEventHandler:self andSelector:@selector(getUrl:withReplyEvent:) forEventClass:kInternetEventClass andEventID:kAEGetURL]; }

    - (void)getUrl:(NSAppleEventDescriptor )event withReplyEvent:(NSAppleEventDescriptor )replyEvent { NSString url = [[event paramDescriptorForKeyword:keyDirectObject] stringValue]; // Now you can parse the URL and perform whatever action is needed }


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    In Mac OS X Tiger and later, you can call LSSetDefaultHandlerForURLScheme to register an app as the default handler for a protocol, as would be need for a common protocol such as http, or ftp.