Download voobly mods from browser
If you inspect a Voobly mods page (such as Jurassic 2 for Age of Empires II: The Conquerors) you can see that the "Download" button is a custom protocol.
<form action="voobly://client.voobly.com:17600/?service=Package&uid=0&session=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&arg=voobly.com**gamemods*13*Jurassic[space]2" method="post">
You can inspect what your system is currently configured to use for a custom protocol of x-scheme-handler/voobly:
$ xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/voobly
Voobly.desktop
And if you need to manually set it, you can do so with:
xdg-mime default Voobly.desktop x-scheme-handler/voobly
Interestingly enough, I did not need to fully qualify the path to Voobly.desktop. I suspect that is because it is in one of the XDG_DATA_DIRS default locations which is the ~/.local/share/applications/ My Voobly.desktop actually calls a wrapper shell script, which I augmented to pass the parameters to voobly.exe.
$ cat ~/.local/share/applications/Voobly.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Voobly
Exec=/home/bgstack15/.wine/voobly.sh %u
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
Path=/home/bgstack15/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/Voobly
Icon=/home/bgstack15/.local/share/icons/voobly.png
StartupWMClass=voobly.exe
Comment=Play Age of Empires 2 online
Terminal=false
Categories=Game;StrategyGame;
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/voobly;
StartupWMClass=voobly.exe
The shell script voobly.sh has that $@ (all parameters), which will pass any
of those values from the %u from the Desktop file.
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Side note: The STAGING_WRITECOPY=1 environment variable is not necessary for
wine with versions starting approximately 2020. I cannot pinpoint the exact
time or version, unfortunately. The Wine release notes make passing references
to copy-on-write or similar for versions
4.4,
4.2, and
2.18 but they don't seem definitive
enough to match what I recall. But for Devuan Ceres I haven't needed the
winehq apt repo for a long time now. (And Fedora has always used the staging
version of Wine.) Or you could just copy extant Voobly mods from one installed
system to another underneath directory ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\
Files/Microsoft\ Games/Age\ of\ Empires\ II/Voobly\ Mods/AOC/. There are
several directories in there, particularly Local Mods.
$ ls -al ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Microsoft\ Games/Age\ of\ Empires\ II/Voobly\ Mods/AOC/Local\ Mods/
total 16
drwxrwxr-x. 3 bgstack15 bgstack15 4096 Jan 24 2020 Short Walls/
drwxrwxr-x. 3 bgstack15 bgstack15 4096 Jan 29 2020 Small Trees/
drwx------. 4 bgstack15 bgstack15 4096 Oct 6 2019 Spectator Dashboard/
drwx------. 4 bgstack15 bgstack15 4096 Oct 6 2019 Spectator Overlay/
Happy downloading mods! 
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