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OSX Swift open URL in default browser

How to open a URL in the system default browser by using Swift as programming language and OSX as platform?

I found a lot with UIApplication like:

UIApplication.sharedApplication().openURL(NSURL(string: object.url))

but this works just on iOS and not on OSX

And the Launch Services, I found has no examples for swift and there is a lot deprecated for OSX 10.10.

Solution

  • Swift 3 or later

    import Cocoa

let url = URL(string: "https://www.google.com")!
if NSWorkspace.shared.open(url) {
    print("default browser was successfully opened")

}