The protocol API allows us to register a custom protocol and intercept existing protocol requests.
These methods allow you to set and unset the protocols your app should be the default app for. Similar to when a browser asks to be your default for viewing web pages.
Open the full protocol API documentation in your browser.
-----First: Launch current page in browser
Then: Launch the app from a web link! Click here to launch the app
----You can set your app as the default app to open for a specific protocol. For instance, in this demo we set this app
as the default for electron-fiddle://. The demo button above will launch a page in your default
browser with a link. Click that link and it will re-launch this app.
This feature will only work on macOS when your app is packaged. It will not work when you're launching it in
development from the command-line. When you package your app you'll need to make sure the macOS plist
for the app is updated to include the new protocol handler. If you're using @electron/packager then you
can add the flag --extend-info with a path to the plist you've created. The one for this
app is below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>CFBundleURLTypes</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>CFBundleURLSchemes</key>
<array>
<string>electron-api-demos</string>
</array>
<key>CFBundleURLName</key>
<string>Electron API Demos Protocol</string>
</dict>
</array>
<key>ElectronTeamID</key>
<string>VEKTX9H2N7</string>
</dict>
</plist>