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Is is possible to call ‘pythonista://...’ and get it to return data in the callback. I know that I can use pythonista to get data say from Workflow app, but is it possible the other way around?

Don't know if it's still working... Workflow

Hi, yes you can' the trick if your using workflow is to use a custom x-success callback that is "args" which will allow pythonista to return the value.

here is a sample pythonista script that will return a result to workflow.io

#!/usr/bin/env python
# workflow.py

import sys,json,urllib
from datetime import datetime
import console,webbrowser,clipboard

def main():
    console.clear()
    console.set_font('Menlo',12)
    console.set_color(1,1,1)

    #print json.dumps(sys.argv, indent=4)

    dtf = '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'
    output = dict(
        when=datetime.now().strftime(dtf),
        args=sys.argv
    )

    result = json.dumps(output,indent=4)
    print(result)

    x_callback=sys.argv[-1]

    if not '://' in x_callback:
        return

    url = x_callback + '?argv=' + urllib.quote(result)

    webbrowser.open(url)

if __name__ == '__main__': main()

and to call is use this x-callback-url request

pythonista://workflow.py?action=run&argv=1&argv=2

Here is a dropbox link to a workflow.io flow that uses the above pythonista workflow.py code.

workflow.io to pythonista.py
Cheers Dave.