URL Commands

Terminology

The URLs are constructed from a single command and optional parameters, with the following format:

x-devonthink://<command>?<parameter=value&parameter=value&...>

Listed below are the commands and parameters available:

Commands:

• createFormattedNote: Creates a formatted note.
• createHTML: Creates a new HTML document.
• createMarkdown: Creates a Markdown document.
• createPDF: Creates a PDF.
• createRTF: Creates a rich text document.
• createWebArchive: Creates a web archive.
• createBookmark: Creates a new bookmark.

• createGroup: Creates a group.
• createText: Creates a new plain text document.
• clip: Opens the Clip to DEVONthink panel.
• note: Opens the Take Note panel.
• search: Initiates a search in the open databases.

Parameters:

• title: The title of the item to be created (string).
• comment: A Comment to be added (string).
• location: The URL linking to the content, e.g., the URL of the website for the bookmark (URL).
• tags: Tags to be added (comma separated strings).
• destination: The UUID of a group where the item shall be created (string).
• source: The HTML content for HTML documents (string, only used by createHTML and createFormattedNotes).
• text: The text content for text documents (string, used by createText and createMarkdown).
• width: The page width (integer, only used by createPDF).
• paginated: Paginate the created PDF (boolean, only used by createPDF).
• hide: Hide and deactivate application after executing the comment (boolean).
• noselector: Skip group selector (boolean).
• query: The query to search for (string, only used by search).
• reader: Post-process the page (integer, 0 = no post-processing, any other value = post-process).
• referrer: The URL that referred to the item (URL).
• selection: The selected text (string, only used by createRTF).