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I was wondering where to insert the code to open a movie specific url that gets the metadata from the video file playing and depending on that open a new tab in the web browser. I want to google search for the particular movie im watching, and i want that tab to open when i open the movie file in vlc

Create a lua extension.

Thanks, but I'm unable to find any way in which i can open some url from the lua script. Could you please help with that?

What do you want to do?

I want to open a new tab in the system's web browser, with "http://www.something.com" from my extension. Is this possible from lua?

Currently I am able to open a dialog with the link, but i want to skip this step and open the link directly without user input.

I don't think you can, yet.

okay thanks anyway

actually i just used os.execute("start url ") and it worked