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Is there a directory of all the Mac Apps that support URL Schemes? A URL Scheme is a custom url that launches the app and might perform an action.

omnifocus://

The above URL scheme works for OmniFocus.app

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imsoper
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    Are you looking which apps support which URI schemes on your machine, or a general listing? – slhck Nov 03 '12 at 13:05
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    @slhck Let's assume the former, as the latter isn't possible given that there is no list of all the Mac Apps to begin with. Versiontracker/MacUpdate might be reasonably complete though. It would help a lot if this question contained some information about the motivation. – Daniel Beck Nov 03 '12 at 13:20
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    I was primarily looking for a general listing, but finding the apps on my machine would be useful as well. – imsoper Nov 13 '12 at 15:53

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Another option would be to use lsregister -dump.

/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -dump | grep -B6 bindings:.*:

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For a list of all URL schemes the applications on your system support, get RCDefaultApp. It will add a preference pane to system preferences that includes a list of supported URL schemes and the applications providing that support.

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Please note that these schemes are not necessarily related to useful services provided by the apps. Many exist simply to facilitate registering software (e.g. x-voodoopad-register, x-unison2-reg,or webnote-license) by clicking a link in an email and aren't of any use otherwise. For the rest, you need to figure out how to use them. Just running e.g. open txmt://foo in the Terminal will not produce a useful result.

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