WinBoxURI: Native winbox:// links for WinBox 4 on macOS

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Hi all,

Over the years there have been multiple requests for native support of winbox:// links in WinBox.

Since WinBox for macOS already supports command-line arguments, I created a small open-source helper that registers the winbox:// URI scheme and launches WinBox with the appropriate parameters.

GitHub:

Supported formats:

winbox://192.168.88.1
winbox://admin@192.168.88.1
winbox://admin:password@192.168.88.1
winbox://admin@192.168.88.1/default
winbox://admin:password@192.168.88.1/default

This allows WinBox links to be opened directly from:

  • Internal documentation

  • CRM systems

  • NOC dashboards

  • LibreNMS

  • The Dude

  • Asset management systems

  • Browser bookmarks

  • Any web application

Example:

<a href="winbox://admin@192.168.88.1">Open Router</a>

The project is free and open source.

Feedback, bug reports and feature requests are welcome.

If there is enough interest, I can add support for additional WinBox parameters and other MikroTik-related URI schemes.

Hopefully this helps anyone who has been waiting for winbox:// support.

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Nice work. Although this really should just be in WinBox4 so their is not a separate install to enable it.

Indeed, there have been Windows ones for some winbox:// moniker since 2019, and in a thread from 2021, responded:

Yet, we have a new Multiplatform WinBox, still no winbox:// URL handler. Despite being plist change and callback function:

            <key>CFBundleURLSchemes</key>
            <array>
                <string>winbox</string>
            </array>

which your code aptly demonstrates . So I renew the winbox:// request in the WinBox4 beta: