Run Action based on URL Topic is solved

[Lichtathlet]

hey guys,

I'm struggling with an action. Basically what I'm trying to achieve is to run actions based on a url.

So for example
::!m::
#IfWinActive ahk_exe firefox.exe
send ^l ; select url
send ^c ; copy url
if URL contains = "?mobile_view" {
action
}
else {
action 2
}

can anyone help me out?

thanks in advance

[MannyKSoSo]

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::!m::
#IfWinActive ahk_exe firefox.exe
send ^l ; select url
send ^c ; copy url
if (InStr(clipboard, "?mobile_view")) {
;action
}
else {
;action 2
}
return

Untested

[boiler]

Looks like you want a hotkey instead of a hotstring. And the #IfWinActive directive goes before it, not after. Use InStr to see if the URL contains that string.

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#IfWinActive ahk_exe firefox.exe
!m::
	send ^l ; select url
	send ^c ; copy url
	if InStr(Clipboard, "?mobile_view") {
		action
	}
	else {
		action 2
	}
return

[Lichtathlet]

Thank you very much. That worked for me.
Out of curiosity, when using InStr(Clipboard) is there also a way to alter the url or stripping parts of it easily?

[MannyKSoSo]

You can split on different characters or use regex. Since it seems like you are using arguments in the url you can split it by the ? first, then by & for each variable input and finally split by = to get the variable name and the value. If you are only interested in one part of the url string I recommend using regex as that is a bit easier

[boiler]

You can't alter the contents of a variable using InStr, but you can with SubStr, RegExReplace, and many other ways. That applies to the Clipboard variable as well.