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extract_url.pl 1.4 (Default branch)
extract_url.pl is a Perl script that extracts URLs from either correctly-encoded MIME email messages or from plain text. It can be used either as a pre-parser for a URL selector (such as urlview), or as a standalone URL selector. It is very configurable, can handle URLs that have been broken over several lines in format=flowed delsp=yes email messages, and eliminates duplicate URLs. It was designed primarily for use with Mutt, but can be used by for any similar purpose. The idea is that if you want to access a URL in an email, you pipe the email to a URL extractor (like this one), which then lets you select a URL to view in some third program (such as Firefox). License: BSD License (original) Changes:
This release adds support for a configurable alternative selection key (via ALTSELECT), allowing a person to, in effect, temporarily negate the PERSISTENT setting. It adds conditional support for long options if Getopt::Long is available. 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)