Login fails on macOS: "Safari cannot open the page because the address is invalid."

[MrPowerMac]

Pretty much what it says on the tin. Upon running koneko, it correctly opens the login page in Safari and I can log in, but the mentioned error message appears and koneko never recognizes the login. Running koneko again brings up the login page as if I had never logged in.

I did test copying the link into a Chromium incognito window and logging in there, but instead of an error it just displayed a blank page.

$ koneko
sh: xdg-mime: command not found
sh: update-desktop-database: command not found
Please log to pixiv in your browser then run koneko again
<url here...>

My system is running macOS 12.4, and Safari 15.5.
koneko 0.12.4 was installed with pipx 1.0.0, using Python 3.10.4 (the latter two installed via MacPorts).

[akazukin5151]

Thanks for the report. I can see that it isn't recognizing that koneko-url-login should handle the pixiv:// URI, because it's still using the linux commands.

Chromium displaying a blank page is partially "expected behavior" because it is supposed to launch koneko-url-login, but it wasn't properly registered.

I've successfully tested with a clean koneko config so I can confirm pixiv didn't change their APIs

I'll have a look at the mime type code for now, stay tuned

[MrPowerMac]

Thanks for the quick response! Good to know it wasn’t due to any configuration issue on my end. I’d be happy to test anything needed.

[akazukin5151]

The code indeed only works for linux, there was no alternative commands for macOS. I think it'll be better and easier to just use the last item on the troubleshooting section: use this script and

Copy the example config to ~/.config/koneko, and add the line refresh_token=XXXX under the [Credentials] section.

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IMO the time and effort it takes to do increasingly bold hacks isn't worth it, especially when I'm not familiar with macOS, but I'll keep this issue open and I still welcome any PRs to fix this.

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10597144/how-to-register-an-application-to-a-uri-scheme-in-mac-os-x
• https://superuser.com/questions/548119/how-do-i-configure-custom-url-handlers-on-os-x

Many solutions for macOS relies on small utility apps to do the job instead of programmatic/command line. While I can ask users to install GUIs, it just seems much more of a hassle than just using the script above.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/defining-a-custom-url-scheme-for-your-app

Apple's instructions on registering a custom URI scheme is to use the xcode GUI. There are several problems with this: koneko is not written in xcode, and I don't have access to xcode.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1991072/how-to-handle-with-a-default-url-scheme

Threads that are several years old offer a programmatic way, through the Info.plist file. But apparently one has to register it with Objective-C

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/471581/how-to-map-a-custom-protocol-to-an-application-on-the-mac/54300716#54300716

This one offers a bit of hope. If you really want, can you try if either open scheme://test or open -a App scheme://test works?