# open

Open the linked application's URL, or its Coolify page, in the default browser, and always print it.

URL: https://coolship.itrocas.com/docs/commands/open

```text
coolship open [target] [flags]
```

`open` resolves the application's public URL — or, with `--dashboard`, its page in Coolify — prints it on stdout, and launches the default browser. When stdin is not a terminal, or with `--print`, nothing is launched, so the command composes with other tools.

```text
$ coolship open --print
https://coolship.example.com
```

## Flags

| Flag          | Purpose                                                           |
| ------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `--dashboard` | Open the application's page in Coolify instead of its public URL. |
| `--print`     | Print the URL without launching a browser.                        |

## Examples

```bash
coolship open
coolship open --dashboard
coolship open --print | pbcopy
coolship open api --dashboard
```

The dashboard URL is `<instance>/project/<project uuid>/environment/<environment uuid>/application/<application uuid>`. Only web URLs are ever handed to the browser opener. Preview deployment URLs are not readable through the API, so `open` does not offer them.

## JSON

```json
{
  "target": { "…": "the resolved target, see the command reference" },
  "kind": "application",
  "url": "https://coolship.example.com"
}
```

`kind` is `application` or `dashboard`.

## Exit codes

`0` when the URL was resolved (whether or not a browser was launched); `1` when the server cannot be reached, or when the browser cannot be launched (the URL is still printed); `2` when the directory is not linked, or when the application has no domain to open (the error suggests `--dashboard`).