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urlscan-1.0.6p0

terminal URL viewer (urlview replacement)

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Description

Urlscan is a small program that is designed to integrate with the "mutt" mailreader to allow you to easily launch a Web browser for URLs contained in email messages. It is a replacement for the "urlview" program. Relative to urlview, urlscan has the following additional features: * Support for emails in quoted-printable and base64 encodings. No more stripping out =40D from URLs by hand! * The context of each URL is provided along with the URL. For HTML mails, a crude parser is used to render the HTML into text. Context view can be toggled on/off with c. * URLs are shortened by default to fit on one line. Viewing full URL (for one or all) is toggled with s or S. * Jump to a URL by typing the number. * Incremental case-insensitive search with /. * Execute an arbitrary function (for example, copy URL to clipboard) instead of opening URL in a browser. * Use l to cycle through whether URLs are opened using the Python webbrowser module (default), xdg-open (if installed) or opened by a function passed on the command line with --run or --run-safe. * Configure colors and keybindings via ~/.config/urlscan/config.json. Generate default config file for editing by running urlscan -g. Cycle through available palettes with p. Set display width with --width. * Copy URL to clipboard with C or to primary selection with P. Requires xsel or xclip. * Run a command with the selected URL as the argument or pipe the selected URL to a command. * Show complete help menu with F1. Hide header on startup with --nohelp. * Use a custom regular expression with -E for matching urls or any other pattern. In junction with -r, this effectively turns urlscan into a general purpose CLI selector-type utility. * Scan certain email headers for URLs. Currently Link, Archived-At and List-* are scanned when --headers is passed. * Queue multiple URLs for opening and open them all at once with a and o.

Package information

Ports path
textproc/urlscan
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Stefan Hagen <sh+ports@codevoid.de>
Categories
textproc, lang/python
Available flavors
None listed
Only for architectures
aarch64, amd64, arm, i386, mips64, mips64el, powerpc, powerpc64, riscv64, alpha, hppa, sparc64

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