Launch Keyboard Maestro Script from Drafts Action

[RochelleB-S]

How can I launch a Keyboard Maestro script from a Drafts action? I basically want to have Drafts do a few steps and then launch the script.

All Keyboard Maestro scripts can be launched via a URL (Keyboard Maestro offers several different URLs for each script). Maybe this is useful?

[RochelleB-S]

Solved in another post by @sylumer!

How to insert link to external file with drafts for mac?

Links to Scrivener documents work perfectly, (Scrivener→ document → copy link → paste into draft) but I am unable to create links to external files like numbers files. I am not referring to opening draft content in numbers. I just want to open a numbers file in my mac. In terms of workflow, I tried all finder → file → copy path possible including Unix, HFS, Terminal and most importantly URL. thank you

[martinpacker]

Is this a “a high frequency” event? Or an occasional thing? I ask because the Keyboard Maestro methods - if not served on the same machine as the requester - tend to be slow.

If on the same machine you might be able to kick off some AppleScript to do it quicker. (KM definitely can be driven by AppleScript on Mac.)

[RochelleB-S]

Not sure how high-frequency it will be, but the solution was very simple: Use Drafts’ URL action step and the URL trigger for the Keyboard Maestro macro. It works quickly and does just what I need.