Warp CLI + General Scriptability + Open Warp with a directory URL

[Gregory-Gelfond]

Describe the solution you'd like?

Currently we are using iTerm with a custom script to launch a Java environment from within IntelliJ:


#!/bin/bash
TEMP="${HOME}/EC-Projects/misc/bin/jlineExec.sh"
if [ $1 = "-version" ]; then
  echo "" > ${TEMP}
else
  export JAVA_CMD="${JAVA_HOME}/bin/java $@"
  export FIRST="${JAVA_CMD/javaagent:/javaagent:\"}"
  export ALMOST="${FIRST/agent.jar -Dfile/agent.jar\" -Dfile}"
  echo "#!/bin/bash" > ${TEMP}
  echo "${ALMOST/bin -Dfile/bin\" -Dfile}" >> ${TEMP}
  echo ${TEMP}
  open -a iTerm.app ${TEMP}
fi

Having support to use Warp instead of iTerm in this script would be awesome.

### Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

_No response_

### Additional context

_No response_

[elviskahoro]

From discord:

"Thanks! Another question, is it possible to change your current/default theme programmatically? I like to have a single script to setup my machines"

[elviskahoro]

Hi, Is there any way to open a new warp tab by setting the custom zshrc file ? I am trying to set my shortcut in the zshrc file, and the goal is to open mutiple tab in Warp and run the specfic command for each tab

[flaxton]

I've done this in an applescript.

Here's an example:

sudo osascript -e 'tell application "Warp" to activate'
sudo osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to tell process "Warp" to keystroke "t" using command down'
sleep 1
sudo osascript -e 'tell application "System Events"
tell process "Warp"
keystroke "your script.sh"
key code 36
end tell
end tell
'

So here's what it does.

1. Activate Warp - bring to front
2. Send cmd-t to Warp to open a new tab
3. Sleep 1 second (the rest didn't work without this)
4. Type in "your script.sh"
5. Send key code 36 (Enter)

So this opens a new tab, types in your script name and presses Enter 👍 I have it in one script, and another script calls it and opens 5 remote server tabs in Warp for me. Very convenient!

[parterburn]

@flaxton thank you for this! I translated it so that Alfred can utilize Warp as the default terminal: https://gist.github.com/parterburn/e832b9090ee35eb830529de8bd978b82

[elviskahoro]

Is there any way to open Warp in a particular directory from a shell script? Looking for similar behaviour to vscode: code ./some/directory

[elviskahoro]

I came from using Iterm2, and in the settings I was able to set a file to be source on launch ( ~/.bash_profile).
Is there a way to do this in warp?

[elviskahoro]

From @ianwalter via:

• Moved to #345 - Tab API #566

Describe the solution you'd like?

I just used iTerm2's Python API to create a python script in my monorepo that creates a bunch of tabs to run different services (e.g. docker compose, API server, Next.js dev server, iOS simulator, etc). It's great because I can easily start my whole dev environment with one command and have a meaningful tab name set for each tab. I would have preferred to use Node.js instead of Python, but not a big deal. Really liking Warp so far but this is what I am still using iTerm2 for.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

No response

Additional context

Here's an example of a tab I create in the script:

        # Create a new tab and run the Docker Compose services.
        tab = await window.async_create_tab()
        await tab.async_set_title('Docker')
        command = f'cd {root}/packages/web; yarn docker\n'
        await tab.current_session.async_send_text(command)

[elviskahoro]

From @kieran-osgood via:

• Moved to #345 - Support a startup command argument  #307

Describe the solution you'd like?

Possibly related to #102 but in the default mac terminal and iTerm you can use a command like: open -a terminal ./path/to/directory and it will open the terminal window/tab at that directory - (which I use frequently in combination with Launchbar (https://www.obdev.at/resources/launchbar/help/index.php?chapter=OtherFeatures#:~:text=Select%20a%20folder%20in%20LaunchBar,pressing%20Tab%20and%20selecting%20Terminal.)

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Currently running open -a Warp ./path/to/directory just opens Warp at my home directory instead of the specified one

Additional context

No response

[elviskahoro]

Make it super easy to do a “open Warp to this directory” and 90% of our scriptability needs will be met.
Heck supporting a “warp:///newterminal/path=~/Downloads” URL scheme would be the easiest by far.

[elviskahoro]

Thanks! Another question, is it possible to change your current/default theme programmatically? I like to have a single script to setup my machines

[artem-karpenko]

I wanted to configure warp as an external tool to be launched from my IDE. It would be very convenient if I could pass my project's directory (which is available in tool launch config) to warp so it would start from that directory.

[elviskahoro]

From Tominabox vi Discord: https://discord.com/channels/851854972600451112/906269689116770304/929810244157194371

hey all, after a bit of messing around it would be pretty neat to be able to have ways to open warp with specific splits and applications running in each one. E.g. when opening project X, a docker container runs up in the left hand split and a node server runs on the right hand. I suppose it's a bit similar to customizable tasks like mentioned above

[vmitchell85]

Was looking for a way to send a command to Warp from AppleScript or from another bash. Something like the following that I use for iTerm:

if application "iTerm" is running then
    tell application "iTerm"
        set newWindow to (create window with default profile)
        tell newWindow
            tell current tab
                tell current session
                    write text "ls"
                end tell
            end tell
        end tell
    end tell
else
    tell application "iTerm"
        tell current window
            tell current tab
                tell current session
                    write text "ls"
                end tell
            end tell
        end tell
    end tell
end if

[parterburn]

Similarly, it'd be great if there was a Warp version of this to be used with Alfred App: https://github.com/vitorgalvao/custom-alfred-iterm-scripts/blob/master/custom_iterm_script.applescript

[parterburn]

Update, solved this: https://gist.github.com/parterburn/e832b9090ee35eb830529de8bd978b82

[elviskahoro]

From @solvip via

• Custom Prompt (PS1, Starship, Powerlevel10k) #422
• Custom Prompt (PS1, Starship, Powerlevel10k) #422 (comment)

Is there a way to programmatically(i.e., from a shell script) check if the "Honor user's custom prompt (PS1) setting" is set or not?

The use case is tooling for ops; we wanna make sure that if you are operating prod, you'll see it in your prompt.

[h0tk3y]

The ability to run Warp with a startup directory argument (or pass it to a running instance) would be very valuable for such use cases as running terminal from some other software like file managers and IDEs. I'd be happy to see this supported.

[chendifan]

I'm trying to login after proxied by export xxx_proxy='', after running /Applications/Warp.app/Contents/MacOS/stable I got this:

objc[8383]: Class SentryLevelMapper is implemented in both /Applications/Warp.app/Contents/Frameworks/Sentry.framework/Versions/A/Sentry (0x10b649e58) and /Applications/Warp.app/Contents/MacOS/stable (0x10a60a7f8). One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
initializing crash reporting Some("stable_release") with tag "v0.2022.04.01.01.37.stable_03"
thread 'main' panicked at 'called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: reqwest::Error { kind: Builder, source: "unknown proxy scheme" }', /Users/runner/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/sentry-0.23.0/src/transports/reqwest.rs:36:67
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace

[ianwalter]

It seems like Warp has added exactly what I was looking for with "Launch Configurations" as described in the docs: https://docs.warp.dev/features/session-management/launch-configurations
But I don't actually see this feature in the latest version. Is this in beta or something?

[elviskahoro]

The documentation was released kinda early.

[pomdtr]

This command works for me: open -a Warp.app ~/Documents

[Kyle-Ye]

It only works in terminal such as by open -a Warp.app .

But it still gives an error if we try to use the Foundation API of NSWorkspace in ObjectiveC or Swift.

do {
	let application = try await NSWorkspace.shared.open(urls, withApplicationAt: url, configuration: config)
} catch {
	// Error handling
}

I have a Finder-Sync extension app (Open Sourced at https://github.com/Kyle-Ye/MenuHelper) and will use such API to try to open with Warp.

Other standard apps which is able to open url are all OK with such API call. (Git Tower/Xcode/VS Code/Terminal/IntelliJ IDEA etc.)

[dan-autonomic]

Didn't know this already worked !!! Thank you so much for sharing

[florian-muc]

From the NSWorkspace header it looks like this could be the issue when trying to open from Cocoa: The path to the application instance is always automatically inserted as the first argument.

In that case only the Warp developers can fix things for us.

/* Command-line arguments to pass to a new application instance. Defaults to @[].
 Only applies when a new application instance is created.
 The path to the application instance is always automatically inserted as the first argument.
 If the calling process is sandboxed, the value of this property is ignored. */
@property (copy) NSArray<NSString *> *arguments;

[dannyneira]

From @sd-godaddy on #2215

launch Warp from any other terminal:
open /Applications/Warp.app --args /Users/mysusername/Workspace/PEX_dev/myprojectname
It opens warp but clearly passing arg /Users/mysusername/Workspace/PEX_dev/myprojectname
is not making Warp to open in this location.
Probably Warp is not accepting arguments at all.

[AnotherYeti]

A huge use case in my workflows is having scripts launch iTerm windows with profiles set with single TUI application running, with the window automatically closing afterwards:

#!/usr/bin/python3

import iterm2
import AppKit
import sys

bundle = "com.googlecode.iterm2"
if not AppKit.NSRunningApplication.runningApplicationsWithBundleIdentifier_(bundle):
    AppKit.NSWorkspace.sharedWorkspace().launchApplication_("iTerm")

async def main(connection):
    app = await iterm2.async_get_app(connection)
    if len(sys.argv) > 2:
        window = await iterm2.Window.async_create(connection, profile = str(sys.argv[1]), command = str(sys.argv[2]))
    else:
        window = await iterm2.Window.async_create(connection, profile = str(sys.argv[1]))

    await window.async_activate()

    apps = AppKit.NSRunningApplication.runningApplicationsWithBundleIdentifier_(bundle)
    apps[0].activateWithOptions_(AppKit.NSApplicationActivateIgnoringOtherApps)

iterm2.run_until_complete(main)

It's painfully slow, though, and I would love to have a more responsive application start things up. This does require a "start with profile x running" feature from the CLI interface.

[dannyneira]

Hey Folks, Warp has released a public URI Scheme which has been used to create a Raycast extension to open folders with Warp (among other things). Learn more about it here: https://docs.warp.dev/features/uri-scheme

We'll update that document as new features are added.

[00LT00]

Hello, I tried the Raycast extension, but there are some problems. How can I execute dynamic cmd in a new window?
The launch Config method requires a fixed yaml file, but I can't dynamically create yaml in the raycast script and then execute it. This is too inelegant and will create some useless yaml.

[electerious]

The URI Schema doesn't allow passing a command to Warp and therefore doesn't solve the problem :-/

[indykoning]

Will ssh:// support be added to the uri-schemes as well? It's something i used to use a lot with other terminal applications and have to use a workaround for with Warp

[electerious]

Here's how an AppleScript for Raycast can look like:

#!/usr/bin/osascript

# Required parameters:
# @raycast.schemaVersion 1
# @raycast.title Warp
# @raycast.mode silent

# Optional parameters:
# @raycast.argument1 { "type": "text", "placeholder": "Command" }

# Documentation:
# @raycast.author electerious
# @raycast.authorURL https://raycast.com/electerious

on run argv
	tell application "Warp" to activate
	tell application "System Events" to tell process "Warp" to keystroke "t" using command down
	tell application "System Events"
		tell process "Warp"
			keystroke "" & ( item 1 of argv )
			key code 36
		end tell
	end tell
end run

Thanks to @flaxton for the inspiration. It's not perfect, but better than nothing.

[Shock9616]

Would something along these lines be able to be used to open a file in Neovim in Warp?

[khurshid-alam]

@electerious In my testing only key code 36 or 'keystroke return' not working on Air M1. Any idea ?

[artrixdotdev]

For Linux users (Specifically arch based distros) using warp-terminal I made this quick script and put it in my .config/warp-terminal directory. Works well for me.

#!/bin/bash

# Make sure to run the following
# sudo chmod +x $HOME/.config/warp-terminal/warp.sh
# sudo ln -s $HOME/.config/warp-terminal/warp.sh /usr/bin/warp

usage() {
    echo "Usage: $0 <path_to_folder>"
    echo "       $0 [-r | --reuse] <path_to_folder>"
    exit 1
}

if [[ $# -eq 0 ]]; then
    warp-terminal # Opens warp normally
fi


# https://docs.warp.dev/features/uri-scheme
if [[ "$1" == "-r" || "$1" == "--reuse" ]]; then
    if [[ $# -ne 2 ]]; then
        usage
    fi
    path="$2"
    xdg-open "warp://action/new_window?path=$path"
else
    path="$1"
    xdg-open "warp://action/new_tab?path=$path"
fi

[arxeiss]

Here is little modification to @artrixdotdev script for Linux and VS Code users. In terminal.external.linuxExec you cannot add parameters. So to make VS Code "Open new external terminal" works as expected - opening terminal in project location - do following:

1. Use modified script below and store into new file in .config/warp-terminal
2. Run sudo chmod +x $HOME/.config/warp-terminal/warp.sh
3. Run ln -s $HOME/.config/warp-terminal/warp.sh /usr/bin/warp
4. Set "terminal.external.linuxExec": "warp" in VS Code settings
5. 🎉

#!/bin/bash

# Make sure to run the following
# sudo chmod +x $HOME/.config/warp-terminal/warp.sh
# sudo ln -s $HOME/.config/warp-terminal/warp.sh /usr/bin/warp

usage() {
    echo "Usage: $0"
    echo "Usage: $0 <path_to_folder>"
    echo "       $0 [-r | --reuse] <path_to_folder>"
    exit 1
}

if [[ $# -eq 0 ]]; then
    WD="$(pwd)"
    if [[ "$WD" != "" ]]; then
        xdg-open "warp://action/new_tab?path=${WD}"
    else
        warp-terminal # Opens warp normally
    fi
    exit 0
fi


# https://docs.warp.dev/features/uri-scheme
if [[ "$1" == "-r" || "$1" == "--reuse" ]]; then
    if [[ $# -ne 2 ]]; then
        usage
    fi
    path="$2"
    xdg-open "warp://action/new_window?path=$path"
else
    path="$1"
    xdg-open "warp://action/new_tab?path=$path"
fi

[etiennejcharles]

On MacOS to open warp via a command line which I added to my .zshrc

### Function to open a new Warp terminal tab at the specified path
#### Usage: warp [path] - Opens a new Warp tab at the given path or current directory if no path is provided
warp() {
  local target_path="${1:-.}"
  open "warp://action/new_tab?path=$(cd "$target_path" && pwd)"
}

[drewbitt]

Warp Preview now has a cli.

[buremba]

Great! Is there any way to have split pane similar to Wezterm or good old tmux?

[elviskahoro]

You can use the command palette

or the keybindings

[buremba]

Maybe programmatically somehow?

[classicrob]

Hi, just following up on this issue, being able to open panes and splits via bash or AppleScript would greatly improve my Claude Code experience, as I could have it show me text or image files!

[RWayne93]

just wanted to add aside from the agent it would be nice to change user settings from the cli as well