Launching a URL using actionable notifications, is it possible?

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I’ve built a simple automation that sends me an iOS actionable notification on Monday and Friday morning when there’s a new “Discover Weekly” or “Release Radar” playlist on Spotify (so I can download/cache it before my morning drive).

I have everything in place, the notification sends properly and the buttons are in place, but I just cannot figure out how to get the buttons to launch a URL. Here is an image of what I have: https://i.imgur.com/H7uEuph.jpg

Hoping someone can give me a pointer, or let me know if this is even possible or not? Have spent all weekend trying to figure this out and I’m stumped. Thanks.

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I’m pretty sure the attachment option only supports audio, image and video file URLs.

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Audio attachments

Maximum file size: 5 MB

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Thanks but I think that’s just for how to display the image. What I’m trying to do is make the buttons below that attachment image launch a specified URL (for example pressing button 1 would launch google.com, pressing button 2 would launch yahoo.com).

I have this mostly working, except for the link part.

ios:
  push:
    categories:
      - name: spotify
        identifier: spotify
        actions:
          #BUTTON 1
          - identifier: DISCOVERWEEKLY
            title: "Discover Weekly"
            activationMode: 'background'
            authenticationRequired: no
            destructive: no
            behavior: 'default'
          #BUTTON 2
          - identifier: RELEASERADAR
            title: "Release Radar"
            activationMode: 'background'
            authenticationRequired: no
            destructive: no
            behavior: 'default'

And this is the automation for when those buttons are pressed.

automation:            
  - alias: 'Spotify Button 1 - Launch Discover Weekly Playlist'
    initial_state: 'on'
    hide_entity: true
    trigger:
      - platform: event
        event_type: ios.notification_action_fired
        event_data:
          actionName: DISCOVERWEEKLY
    action:
      service: homeassistant.turn_on
      entity_id: group.all_lights

  - alias: 'Spotify Button 2 - Launch Release Radar Playlist'
    initial_state: 'on'
    hide_entity: true
    trigger:
      - platform: event
        event_type: ios.notification_action_fired
        event_data:
          actionName: RELEASERADAR
    action:
      service: homeassistant.turn_off
      entity_id: group.all_lights

This code works, but I need to change the action/service part of those two automations to launch a URL instead of turning on/off my lights.

After tons of trial and error and a whole weekend of Googling, I can’t figure out how to accomplish this though. Hoping someone might know the answer.

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Did you see this: