href-taker

HrefTaker

The userscript that adds a popup to collect URLs from a web page. It’s mainly aimed for static web sites.

It grabs the links from anchors’ hrefs (a HTML tag) as well as from non-hyperlink visible text.

Screenshot

Popup is draggable and resizable. Use the upper edge to move the popup. To resize the popup use the right bottom corner.

Changing of controls/filters immediately effects on the result list.

Popup can be not only closed, but minimized.

It keeps the state in LocalStorage.

An installed userscript manager extension (VM/TM) is required.

To open the popup use the userscript manager’s menu command:

The userscript has by default:

// @match       *://*/*

It’s recommended to overwrite the rule in the userscript manager’s settings to run the script only in the locations where you need it:

To use the userscript in file:// pages you need to enable “Allow access to file URLs” checkbox in the userscript manager extension’s setting:

Here is a demo webpage to try this popup.

To filter the result list use “Only” and “Ignore” inputs.

The result list will have any URL which includes any word from Only input and no one from Ignore input.

Use the right mouse button (RMB) click on the input prompt (“Only”/”Ignore” text) to disable the input rule.

Additionally, with the middle mouse button (MMB) click on the “Only” prompt text you can reverse the filter rule.

Buttons

“List links” button collects and lists the URLs. RMB click clears the list.
“Copy” button copies the links separated by a space. With RMB click the links will be separated by a new line (\n) character.
“URLs to text” button converts links’ text to the original URL value. The second click reverts the changes.
“Extra Settings” button toggles showing the additional options.

Checkboxes

“Include text” checkbox — to additionally parse URLs from text (innerText), not only from a tag elements.
“Only text” checkbox — to parse URLs only from the web page visible text content, not from a tags.

Extra checkboxes

“Auto open” — to automatically show the popup/minimized popup on a web page is loaded event even the popup was closed last time.
“Auto list” — to automatically collect and list URL on popup is opened.
“Only unique” — to list only unique URLs without duplicates.
“Sort” — to sort URLs by hostname.
“Reverse” — to revers order the result URLs list.
“Case-sensitive” — for case-sensitive matching.
“No 1st-party” — to exclude 1st-party links, and list only 3rd-party ones.
“https” — to replace http:// with https://.
“Trim brackets” — to enable extra logic for text URL parsing for links are included (,),[,] characters.
“Console log” — to log some data to the console while working.
“Console vars” — to expose some variables into the console. For example, urls variable.

Also in the extra settings you can enable the tags feature. It allows to filter URLs more convenient by hostname tags.

Selector

It defines from which element(s) to parse URLs. By default, it’s body selector.