Text links

A plain link is one of two ways to send text to TransOne without touching macOS permissions at all. The other is PopClip.

The transone:// scheme

TransOne answers links of this form:

transone://translate?text=<url-encoded text>

Opening one opens the translation window with that text, already translated. Like PopClip, this needs no Accessibility permission and works from anywhere that can open a link.

"URL-encoded" means the text is written so it is safe to put inside a link: spaces and other special characters are replaced with codes like %20, which is how a link carries a space. Most tools that build links do this encoding for you.

This is how other tools, scripts and automations can hand text to TransOne without going through a keyboard shortcut. Anything that can open a link, from a launcher to a shell command to a note, can trigger a translation this way.

Next

• PopClip adds a TransOne button to the selection bar.
• Raycast runs a Quicklink that translates your selection.
• Ways to translate covers the built-in shortcuts and gestures.