Make it possible to access Tasker variables from scripts

[termux]

Make it possible to access Tasker variables from scripts

[Neo-Oli]

@PacoBell Yes. Or you can do what I do:
$HOME/bin/termux-url-opener

#!/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/bash
cd ~/bin/
com=`ls --color=never url-*|fzf`
~/bin/$com $@

I then have various url-<name> scripts in $HOME/bin like
url-youtube-dl

youtube-dl $@

When I share I get this screen which lets me choose which script I want to run

[PacoBell]

I personally want to feed YouTube URLs into youtube-dl from the YouTube app Share to "Copy link" to clipboard. Tasker already has a monitor for the %CLIP variable. This would be so easy if it were possible.

[Neo-Oli]

@PacoBell You can do something very similar to this without tasker. You can create a script at $HOME/bin/termux-url-opener containing the command:
youtube-dl $@

Then you can go to a youtube video and click the share button. Then you can, from the youtube app, share to "Termux".

This will automatically launch $HOME/bin/termux-url-opener http://youtube.com?v=xxxxxxxx

[PacoBell]

Awesome! I suppose I'd have to regex parse the URL in order to trigger different services depending on the domain.

[janru]

I'd like to pass a tasker variable to a termux script in the background. I assume, the solution above does not fit my needs, because it opens termux in the foreground, right?
let's say we have the script dosth.sh. Then I'd like to pass the string "myMessage" by executing '~/.termux/tasker/dosth.sh myMessage' which produces an error.
Could you please disable the check if the file "dosth.sh myMessage" exists? Or add a possibility to append parameters?

[TheNothingMan]

Could you please disable the check if the file "dosth.sh myMessage" exists? Or add a possibility to append parameters?

I really would like to see that, too. Limiting Tasker to start scripts without parameters cuts down Tasker+Termux' possibilities.

From what I can see in the source code, all that is needed for this is adding the EXTRA_ARGUMENTS to the plugin setup, then add a PUT_EXTRA in the FireReceiver and send the extra to the TERMUX service.

EDIT: I had a close look on the source. It wasn't that easy, because Termux expects an array of arguments. However, I made it work as I would expect it, and created a pull request. Please have a look at it. This will lift the automation on the next level and make the money paid for the Tasker plugin well spent.

[TheNothingMan]

While I am trying to be patient, I just have to ask: Will there be a version that contains the argument stuff at Google Play soon?
If there are any problems left with my code, I would be glad to see if I can help.

[fornwall]

@TheNothingMan Thanks for your pull request - great work! I've just tagged the release and updated it to Google Play, so it should be available in a few hours as an update.

It should also appear on F-Droid within a day or so.