How to open a tab in Safari, when already in Safari?

[NeroDanza]

I have a script here that runs google image search on whatever URL is in clipboard.
It works perfectly **in Pythonista. **

But I want it to work from within Safari (That means from Safari->'Run Pythonista Script'->'My script.py'.

It will not open the tab if run in this way from Safari. Is there a way to make this work?

My code is simply:

import clipboard
import webbrowser


def is_url(image_url):
    ''' Accepts a url [string]. Returns True if url is valid. '''
    try:
        return image_url.startswith('http://')
    except:
        print 'Invalid URL.'
        return False


def create_url(image_url):
    ''' Accepts an image_url [string]. Returns search by image URL. '''
    search_url = 'https://www.google.co.uk/searchbyimage?&image_url='
    try:
        search_url += image_url
    except:
        print 'Could not create URL from clipboard.'
    return search_url


def main():
    image_url = clipboard.get()
    if is_url(image_url):
        search_url = create_url(image_url)
        webbrowser.open('safari-' + search_url)
        print 'Done.'

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()```

[cvp]

When you run Pythonista in the sharing extension, some functions are not available, like webbrowser...
see here

But you can use:

from objc_util import nsurl,UIApplication

app = UIApplication.sharedApplication()
URL = 'https://www.google.co.uk/searchbyimage?&image_url='
app.openURL_(nsurl(URL))

[NeroDanza]

Thank you. It works very well!

How would I know how to do this without your post though? Should I be reading the objective C iOS api from Apple, or something?

[cvp]

I had found my-self, months ago, by asking on this forum...
It contains a lot of useful informations from some guru's