Emacs Lisp: Command to Extract URL

By Xah Lee. Date: . Last updated: .

Here's a command to extract all URLs in a HTML file.

put this in your Emacs Init File:

(defun xah-html-extract-url (Begin End &optional FullPathQ)
  "Extract URLs in current block or selection to `kill-ring'.
When called interactively, copy result to `kill-ring', each URL in a line.
If the URL is a local file relative path, convert it to full path.
If `universal-argument' is called first, don't convert relative URL to full path.

This command extracts all text of the forms
 <‹letter› … href=‹path› …>
 <‹letter› … src=‹path› …>
The quote for ‹path› may be double or single quote.

When called in lisp code, Begin End are region begin/end positions.
Optional FullPathQ, if true, convert local links to full path.
Returns a list of strings.

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  (interactive
   (let ($p1 $p2)
     (let (($bds (xah-get-bounds-of-thing-or-region 'block))) (setq $p1 (car $bds) $p2 (cdr $bds)))
     (list $p1 $p2 (not current-prefix-arg))))
  (let (($regionText (buffer-substring-no-properties Begin End))
        ($urlList (list)))
    (with-temp-buffer
      (insert $regionText)
      (goto-char (point-min))
      (while (search-forward "<" nil t)
        (replace-match "\n<" t t))
      (goto-char (point-min))
      (while (re-search-forward
              "<[A-Za-z]+.+?\\(href\\|src\\)[[:blank:]]*?=[[:blank:]]*?\\([\"']\\)\\([^\"']+?\\)\\2" nil t)
        (push (match-string-no-properties 3) $urlList)))
    (setq $urlList (reverse $urlList))
    (when FullPathQ
      (setq $urlList
            (mapcar
             (lambda ($x)
               (if (string-match "^http:\\|^https:" $x )
                   $x
                 (expand-file-name
                  $x
                  (file-name-directory
                   (if (buffer-file-name)
                       (buffer-file-name)
                     default-directory
                     )))))
             $urlList)))
    (when (called-interactively-p 'any)
      (let (($printedResult (mapconcat 'identity $urlList "\n")))
        (kill-new $printedResult)
        (message "%s" $printedResult)))
    $urlList ))

you need Emacs: xah-get-thing.el

this is part of Emacs: Xah HTML Mode.

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