How to use python to create url shortcut on mac?

Question

There are answers to the window version. but not mac.

I have searched google but no appropriate result

let say I want to create a shortcut to google.com on desktop, then we could run the python function

createShortcut("www.google.com","~/Desktop")

what could be the function body?

Answer 1

You can create a macos .url file inside the function. It is formatted as follows:

[InternetShortcut]
URL=http://www.yourweb.com/
IconIndex=0

Here is a sample implementation:

import os

def createShortcut(url, destination):
    # get home directory if ~ in destination
    if '~' in destination:
        destination = destination.replace('~', os.path.expanduser("~"))
    # macos .url file format
    text = '[InternetShortcut]\nURL=https://{}\nIconIndex=0'.format(url)
    # write .url file to destination
    with open(destination + 'my_shortcut.url', 'w') as fw:
        fw.write(text)
    return

createShortcut("www.google.com", '~/Desktop/')