# Directly opening a houdahspot search (.hssearch file)

**URL:** https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/directly-opening-a-houdahspot-search-hssearch-file/1535
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**Created:** [June 6, 2020, 10:21am UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/directly-opening-a-houdahspot-search-hssearch-file/1535 "2020-06-06T10:21:13Z")
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### Author: ![seishonagon](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/user_avatar/discourse.hookproductivity.com/seishonagon/32/99_2.png) [@seishonagon](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/seishonagon)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2020, 10:21am UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/directly-opening-a-houdahspot-search-hssearch-file/1535/1 "2020-06-06T10:21:14Z")

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I’m trying to make use of the technique explained [in this forum post about houdah spot](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/a-problem-hook-is-having-with-houdahspot/679) and on K. Dini’s blog, using the script presented [here](https://jesse.hollington.ca/2016/05/getting-focused-with-omnifocus.html).

It boils down to opening a hook link to a .hssearch file.  
The hook link is something like this:  
`hook://file/ksEVvbWEa?p=RG9jdW1lbnRzL3NlYXJjaGVz&n=48hours.hssearch`

And the script boils down to performing  
`do shell script open hook://file/ksEVvbWEa?p=RG9jdW1lbnRzL3NlYXJjaGVz&n=48hours.hssearch`

Unfortunately this opens the finder and shows me the saved search. What I really want to do is to open the actual .hssearch file in one fell swoop.

But I’m not sure how to do it? Is anybody using an updated version of these scripts?