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extract_url.pl 1.3.3 (Default branch)
extract_url.pl is a Perl script that extracts URLsfrom either correctly-encoded MIME email messagesor from plain text. It can be used either as apre-parser for a URL selector (such as urlview),or as a standalone URL selector. It is veryconfigurable, can handle URLs that have beenbroken over several lines in format=floweddelsp=yes email messages, and eliminates duplicateURLs. It was designed primarily for use with Mutt,but can be used by for any similar purpose. Theidea is that if you want to access a URL in anemail, you pipe the email to a URL extractor (likethis one), which then lets you select a URL toview in some third program (such as Firefox).License: BSD License (original)Changes:
Sometimes, multipart/alternative parts don'tactually have analternative, which could confuse the script.They're now handledcorrectly, and MIME parsing has been made morerobust.Image

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urlscan

URLSCAN(1)						      General Commands Manual							URLSCAN(1)

NAME

       urlscan - browse the URLs in an email message from a terminal

SYNOPSIS

       urlscan [options] < message

       urlscan [options] message

DESCRIPTION

       urlscan	accepts a single email message on standard input, then displays a terminal-based list of the URLs in the given message.  Selecting
       a URL will invoke sensible-browser(1) on it (and hence any browser specified in the BROWSER environment variable).

       urlscan is primarily intended to be used with the mutt (1) mailreader, but it should work well with any terminal-based mail program.

       urlscan is similar to urlview(1), but has the following additional features:

       1. Support for more message encodings, such as quoted-printable and base64.

       2. Extraction and display of the context surrounding each URL.

OPTIONS

       -b, --background
	      Run the Web browser in the background, so you can select another URL without closing it (this will not work with terminal-based  Web
	      browsers such as lynx, links, or w3m).

       -c, --compact
	      Display a simple list of the extracted URLs, instead of showing the context of each URL.

MUTT INTEGRATION

       To integrate urlscan with mutt, include the following two commands in ~/.muttrc:

       macro index,pager cb "<pipe-message> urlscan<Enter>" "call urlscan to extract URLs out of a message"

       macro attach,compose cb "<pipe-entry> urlscan<Enter>" "call urlscan to extract URLs out of a message"

       Once  these  lines  are	in  your  mutt	configuration file, pressing Control-b will allow you to browse and open the URLs in the currently
       selected message.

SEE ALSO

       /usr/share/doc/urlscan/README, sensible-browser(1), urlview(1), mutt(1)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>.

								 December 10, 2006							URLSCAN(1)