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Re: Copy all URLs

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On 9/27/16, 11:07 AM, in article hjgasduf833.t@perch.invalid, "Octavian W.
Lagrange" <olagrang@perch.invalid> wrote:

> Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:
>> On 9/26/16, 11:24 PM, in article fhjadu03.gi@perch.invalid, "Octavian W.
>> Lagrange" <olagrang@perch.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>>> Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> On Sunday, September 25, 2016 at 8:34:08 PM UTC-6, Snit wrote:
>>>>> If I wanted to copy all URLs from all tabs of, say, Chrome on Linux what
>>>>> would be the best way? Clearly I could go tab by tab and copy and paste...
>>>>> but curious for better solutions.
>>>>> 
>>>>> That is assuming anyone in COLA knows.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Full disclosure: I am asking because I had an extension for Safari on OS X
>>>>> which used to do this for me... but with Sierra it is no longer supported.
>>>>> So I wrote my own... as a non-programmer who is not even exactly great
>>>>> with
>>>>> scripting.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I am assuming it can be done with Linux... Owl or Marek likely know. But
>>>>> maybe not. I have done ZERO research on this. Might later.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Sniff... sniff... no one wants to play with you anymore :(
>>>> 
>>>> I don't run Linux and, apparently, it can't be done within a browser
>>>> (at least, from the little research I did, that's what I found)
>>> 
>>> There is a "Copy all URLs" extension for chromium.  You can also parse
>>> ~/.config/chromium/Default/"Current Session" for them.  "Current Tabs"
>>> has old ones, oddly.
>>> 
>> Thank you. The extension would likely serve my needs just fine, and might
>> even be faster (though my "Actions" ran quickly in my video there are times
>> they take a couple seconds more).
>> 
>> Just went to the extension site and I see they even have a "custom format"
>> -- which means I can have it with brackets or whatever if I like (or so I
>> assume). Might not be able to have both, as I have now, but not a big deal.
>> 
>> Cool.
>> 
>> If such a thing did not exist, how would you add it to Chrome? Just
>> curious... 
>> 
> 
> I've never looked into writing a browser extension, so I don't know.
> I would probably just parse one of the files like this:
> 
> anon@lowtide:~/.config/chromium/Default$ strings "Current Session"  |grep http
> | sort |uniq |grep -v newtab
> https://www.amazon.com/
> http://www.amazon.com/
> http://www.breitbart.com/
> http://www.foxnews.com/
> http://www.godlikeproductions.com/
> http://www.lunaticoutpost.com/
> anon@lowtide:~/.config/chromium/Default$
> 
> Now that shows tabs across two different browser windows, so it's not
> ideal.

With mine I could have it go through all browser windows... but I generally
just want the one.

> "Current Tabs" works the same way, but it is only created after closing
> the browser, so I guess it functions as a recover last session thingie.
> "Current Session" is updated continually with new tab URLs, but it
> doesn't remove closed URLs, even on browser close, so a script's logic
> would need to take that into account and depending on what you wanted
> it to do, it might delete one or both files at some point.

Basically what I am looking for is being able to grab all the URLs so I can
paste them here or wherever. I could make mine even better by checking the
length of the URL and, if it is over X characters long, passing it through a
URL shortener. Would have to play to do that...

> With the extension, it copies to the clipboard selection, so you could do
> that for each task-oriented browser window you had, following each copy
> with an `xsel -b >set1` (set2, set3, etc.), and have different sets of
> tab urls that you could later pass to a script that opens those sets in
> different browser windows, possibly positioning the windows on different
> virtual desktops.

The pre-made extension would be good enough... but it sounds like lacking
that it would be a challenge on Linux. Note... LACKING THAT... but that is
not the case. As it is the "task" is easily done on Linux. Not a surprise
given that even Safari had such an extension. Might even be a different one
for it... but I am happy having the feature be semi-hidden in a menu and not
throwing another icon on the screen. In that I prefer my script to the
extension I had. 



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Re: Copy all URLs Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2016-09-26 14:18 -0700
  Re: Copy all URLs Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-09-26 17:21 -0400
    Re: Copy all URLs Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2016-09-26 14:28 -0700
      Re: Copy all URLs Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-09-26 17:31 -0400
    Re: Copy all URLs Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-09-26 14:28 -0700
  Re: Copy all URLs tmelmosfire <tmelmosfire@gmail.com> - 2016-09-26 14:33 -0700
  Re: Copy all URLs "Octavian W. Lagrange" <olagrang@perch.invalid> - 2016-09-27 06:24 +0000
    Re: Copy all URLs Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-09-27 08:31 -0700
      Re: Copy all URLs "Octavian W. Lagrange" <olagrang@perch.invalid> - 2016-09-27 18:07 +0000
        Re: Copy all URLs Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-09-27 11:38 -0700
          Re: Copy all URLs "Octavian W. Lagrange" <olagrang@perch.invalid> - 2016-09-27 19:56 +0000
            Re: Copy all URLs Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-09-27 13:23 -0700
    Re: Copy all URLs Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2016-09-27 08:54 -0700
      Re: Copy all URLs tmelmosfire <tmelmosfire@gmail.com> - 2016-09-27 11:00 -0700
        Re: Copy all URLs Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-09-27 11:13 -0700
          Re: Copy all URLs Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2016-09-27 12:14 -0700
            Re: Copy all URLs "Octavian W. Lagrange" <olagrang@perch.invalid> - 2016-09-27 19:28 +0000
              Re: Copy all URLs Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2016-09-27 12:44 -0700
              Re: Copy all URLs Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-09-27 12:46 -0700
                Re: Copy all URLs "Octavian W. Lagrange" <olagrang@perch.invalid> - 2016-09-27 20:21 +0000
                Re: Copy all URLs Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-09-27 13:27 -0700
                Re: Copy all URLs "Octavian W. Lagrange" <olagrang@perch.invalid> - 2016-09-27 21:58 +0000
                Re: Copy all URLs "Octavian W. Lagrange" <olagrang@perch.invalid> - 2016-09-27 23:43 +0000
                Re: Copy all URLs "Octavian W. Lagrange" <olagrang@perch.invalid> - 2016-09-28 01:16 +0000
                Re: Copy all URLs "Octavian W. Lagrange" <olagrang@perch.invalid> - 2016-09-28 01:51 +0000
                Re: Copy all URLs "Octavian W. Lagrange" <olagrang@perch.invalid> - 2016-09-28 02:33 +0000
                Re: Copy all URLs "Octavian W. Lagrange" <olagrang@perch.invalid> - 2016-09-28 04:06 +0000
                Re: Copy all URLs "Octavian W. Lagrange" <olagrang@perch.invalid> - 2016-09-28 06:19 +0000
                Re: Copy all URLs Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-09-28 14:03 +0000
                Re: Copy all URLs Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2016-09-28 09:09 -0700
                Re: Copy all URLs "Octavian W. Lagrange" <olagrang@perch.invalid> - 2016-09-28 04:13 +0000
                Re: Copy all URLs Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-09-28 13:30 +0000
                Re: Copy all URLs Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-09-28 08:35 -0700
                Re: Copy all URLs Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2016-09-28 10:03 -0700
                Re: Copy all URLs "Octavian W. Lagrange" <olagrang@perch.invalid> - 2016-09-27 21:59 +0000
            Re: Copy all URLs tmelmosfire <tmelmosfire@gmail.com> - 2016-09-27 12:38 -0700
              Re: Copy all URLs Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-09-27 13:13 -0700
                Re: Copy all URLs Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2016-09-27 14:27 -0700

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