calibre:// URL scheme working?

.tycho · 03-25-2025, 12:54 PM

Just wondering if the calibre:// URL scheme is working for others in 8.0.1? I'm trying it on macOS and it no longer seems to work for me, but it did in v7. Thanks!

BetterRed · 03-25-2025, 05:52 PM

Working OK for me in version 8.0 on Windows 10, I use them extensively; so, I'd really notice if it wasn't working. I don't connect Kobo so I haven't installed 8.0.1. I can do that easy enough.

Can you give an example of what's not working. e.g. what sort of link (book-details, view-book etc) and how you create the links

Are the links used within calibre (e.g. link "Brave New World" and "The Tempest"), or are they 'clicked' in another app. They stopped working for me in Firefox but the same links work in Edge. If the links are 'clicked' within another app, do they work as a desktop alias… if they do then it's the other app.

If you use inter-library links, I think you will break links if you rename a target library.

I don't use the recently added show-note feature.

Added: version 8.0.1 has no issues with calibre:// links

BR

kovidgoyal · 03-25-2025, 10:16 PM

That's a macOS specific regression in Qt fixed in the next release.

.tycho · 03-26-2025, 12:12 AM

Ah, got it, thank you, Kovid & BetterRed! (Glad I wasn't going crazy...)

.tycho · 03-28-2025, 11:50 AM

Fixed with 8.1.1, thanks!

03-25-2025, 12:54 PM	#1
.tycho Enthusiast Posts: 45 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2024 Device: Kobo Libra 2	calibre:// URL scheme working? Just wondering if the calibre:// URL scheme is working for others in 8.0.1? I'm trying it on macOS and it no longer seems to work for me, but it did in v7. Thanks!

03-25-2025, 05:52 PM	#2
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,733 Karma: 29711016 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	Working OK for me in version 8.0 on Windows 10, I use them extensively; so, I'd really notice if it wasn't working. I don't connect Kobo so I haven't installed 8.0.1. I can do that easy enough. Can you give an example of what's not working. e.g. what sort of link (book-details, view-book etc) and how you create the links Are the links used within calibre (e.g. link "Brave New World" and "The Tempest"), or are they 'clicked' in another app. They stopped working for me in Firefox but the same links work in Edge. If the links are 'clicked' within another app, do they work as a desktop alias… if they do then it's the other app. If you use inter-library links, I think you will break links if you rename a target library. I don't use the recently added show-note feature. Added: version 8.0.1 has no issues with calibre:// links BR Last edited by BetterRed; 03-25-2025 at 10:00 PM. Reason: Added

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03-25-2025, 10:16 PM	#3
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,363 Karma: 27230406 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	That's a macOS specific regression in Qt fixed in the next release.

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.tycho Enthusiast Posts: 45 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2024 Device: Kobo Libra 2	Ah, got it, thank you, Kovid & BetterRed! (Glad I wasn't going crazy...)

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