Pythonista can be launched from other applications with the custom pythonista:// URL scheme.
Open the app:
Use pythonista:// without any additional parameters to open the app without doing anything else.
Open a script for editing:
Use pythonista://MyScript for opening one of your scripts in the editor. The name of the script can contain the .py file extension, but it doesn’t have to.
Run a script from your library:
Use pythonista://MyScript?action=run for running a script that is in your library. This only works if no script is already running when the app is started.
Note
You can only open or run scripts that are already in your library. It is not possible to run arbitrary code or create new scripts using the URL scheme.
When using the action=run parameter (see above), you can pass command-line arguments to the script in two ways:
Method 1: One args parameter
Example: pythonista://MyScript?action=run&args=foo%20bar
When you pass a single string with the args URL parameter, the string is split by spaces (the space is encoded as %20 here) and sys.argv would be [<script_path>, 'foo', 'bar'] in this example.
If you want to pass arguments that contain spaces, you have to enclose them in double quotes (as you would in a classic shell).
This is basically the same as running a script by long-pressing the run button.
Method 2: Multiple argv parameters
Example: pythonista://MyScript?action=run&argv=foo&argv=bar
Using multiple arguments that are all named argv, you don’t have to worry about quoting arguments that contain spaces. Each of the parameters corresponds to one element in sys.argv.
If the URL contains at least one argv parameter, args is ignored.
If you want to go in the opposite direction, and open an app from Pythonista, you can do this with the webbrowser module.
For example, to open TweetBot, you could use the following code:
import webbrowser
webbrowser.open('tweetbot://')
For a list of third-party applications that have URL schemes, you can refer to handleopenurl.com.