SOLVED How to look up a sentence with words with search engine?

[drefyus]

Hello all,

I wrote a service-workflow that takes selected text in Notes app and searches it online. It works with one word only. With more than one word selected, I get this error: The action “Run Shell Script” encountered an error: “The file /Users/main/https:/antwerpen.bibliotheek.be/krantenarchief?q=Vias zet subsidies in voor commerciële does not exist.” How to make this service work with more than one word?
for query in "$@" do open "https://antwerpen.bibliotheek.be/krantenarchief?q=$query" done

 

[Cory Cooper]

Hi,

Sorry for the delayed response.

I don't have much experience with Automator personally. Maybe another member that does will chime in.

You can also try the folks over at MacScripter, as they may be able to help out as well.

C

 

[drefyus]

The solution was add a line to the shell script that replaces spaces between words for a plus sign. Works nicely as a service

for query in "$@" do query_encode="${query//" "/"+"}" open -a "Firefox" "https://antwerpen.bibliotheek.be/krantenarchief?q=$query_encode" done