🔗 GoURL

_{✨ do not use regex 🤡}

GoURL is a small Golang program that reads URLs and email addresses from standard input (STDIN)

You can use any terminal that supports piping visible text to external programs (alacritty, kitty, wezterm, etc).

I'm using st terminal with externalpipe patch to read/pipe current visible text to this program.

Using the option -c, --copy or -o, --open will display the items in dmenu

Without flags, prints URLs found to standard output (STDOUT), you can pipe it to your preferred menu or launcher.

✨ Features

Extract URLs from STDIN
Choose items with dmenu
Ignore duplicates
Copy to clipboard
Open with xdg-open
Custom regex search
Add index to URLs found
Limit number of items

⚡️Requirements

Go v1.21.3 or higher

📦 Build

# clone the repo
$ git clone 'https://github.com/haaag/GoURL' && cd GoURL

# use make to build
$ make

_{Binary can be found in GoURL/bin.}

📦 Install `system wide`

# use make to build
$ make

# install on system
$ sudo make install

_{Uninstall from system, use sudo make uninstall}

🚀 Usage

$ gourl -h
Extract URLs from STDIN

Usage:
  gourl [options]

Options:
  -c, --copy        Copy to clipboard
  -o, --open        Open with xdg-open
  -E, --regex       Custom regex search
  -l, --limit       Limit number of items
  -i, --index       Add index to URLs found
  -a, --args        Args for dmenu
  -V, --version     Output version information
  -v, --verbose     Verbose mode
  -h, --help        Show this message

$ gourl -c < urls.txt
$ cat urls.txt | gourl -c

🚩 Using `-E` flag

The flag -E can be use for custom regex, like in grep.

# list existing remotes
git remote -v | gourl -E '((git|ssh|http(s)?)|(git@[\w\.]+))(:(//)?)([\w\.@\:/\-~]+)(\.git)(/)?'

⭐ Related projects

urlscan - Designed to integrate with the "mutt" mailreader
urlview - Extract URLs from a text file and allow the user to select via a menu

haaag/GoURL