How to programmatically open Pluto in a VS Code new tab from the Julia Terminal?

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I am trying to capture the Pluto URL programmatically ’ pluto_url = some code’ without auto-open and afterwards opening it inside VS Code. Is it possible?

using Pluto
# Start Pluto 
@async Pluto.run(; autoopen=false) 

# Capture the Pluto URL ensuring the secret token is included
pluto_url = some code

# Pluto uses VS Code’s internal browser in a new tab
@async run(`code --reuse-window "$pluto_url"`)
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Run Pluto the Long Way

julia> using Pluto

julia> options = Pluto.Configuration.from_flat_kwargs(; launch_browser=false);

julia> session = Pluto.ServerSession(; options, secret="password");

julia> pluto_url = Pluto.pretty_address(session, options.server.host, options.server.port_hint)
"http://localhost:1234/?secret=password"

julia> t = @async Pluto.run(session);

julia> @async run(`code --reuse-window "$pluto_url"`)

Set the password to whatever you want.

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Thank you very much for your help. When I run your script (on a Mac) it opens VS Code with a tab named ?secret=password but no Pluto running.

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I wonder if possibly the t in t = @async Pluto.run(session); should be used somewhere afterwards?

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Regarding the ?secret=password tab

I don’t know how to open a web page in VS Code from the command line. I don’t normally use VS Code, so I was trusting your run expression worked. I looked into it a bit, but I couldn’t find anything. What does:

code https://www.google.com/

do for you? I get an empty tab and not the SimpleBrowser tab I was hoping for.

Regarding t = @async Pluto.run(session)

If you’re running this as a script outside of the REPL, put a wait(t) at the end. Otherwise, the script will exit and the Pluto server will stop.

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While VSCode can open urls using the integrated SimpleBrowser extension, it does not seem like there is an easy/official way of executing commands provided by VSCode extension directly using the VSCode cli from the command line.
See for example these links from stackoverflow: [1], [2]

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