Automation
Drive Dabbit from Shortcuts, launchers, scripts, or any app that can open a URL.
Dabbit registers the dabbit:// URL scheme. Anything that can open a URL can start a pick, set a color, open a palette, or toggle the dock: Shortcuts, a launcher like Raycast or Alfred, a script, a link in your notes.
URLs
| URL | Does |
|---|---|
dabbit://pick |
Start a pick. ?format=css-oklch copies in that format; ©=0 skips the clipboard; &palette=<id> adds the pick to a palette |
dabbit://color/0d75ee |
Make that the current color. ?copy=1 copies it, &format= chooses how, &open=1 opens the library on it |
dabbit://palette/<uuid> |
Open a palette in the library |
dabbit://extract?url=https://example.com |
New palette from that website’s stylesheets. Without url, opens the image extractor |
dabbit://dock |
Show or hide the Color Dock |
dabbit://settings, dabbit://settings/formats |
Open Settings, optionally on a pane (general, picker, formats, dock, color, library, license, about) |
dabbit://open |
Open the library window |
Format ids are the built-in ones (hex, css-rgb, css-hsl, css-oklch, swiftui, android-argb, …) or a custom format’s id, shown in its editor in Settings → Formats.
From a terminal: open "dabbit://pick?format=css-oklch".
Shortcuts and launchers
In Apple Shortcuts, an Open URLs action with one of the URLs above is all it takes. A “Pick as OKLCH” shortcut on a keyboard combo, or a Stream Deck button, is a one-action shortcut. Launchers such as Raycast and Alfred can open the same URLs from a quicklink or a script command.