Script needed to pull URLs out of desktop shortcuts
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From: Ohmster on 15 Mar 2010 20:24 I've got a friend who is an artist and I made a nice website for him and hosted it with his own domain on godaddy. One of the things he likes to do with his website, aside from promoting his artwork for sale, is to share culture and art links with all of his guests. From time to time, he will give me URLs to add to the Links page on his site and I am happy to do that for a good customer. I don't charge for stuff like that. But this man now gives me a DVD full of desktop shortcuts, 111 of them plus 3 zip files containing even more desktop shortcuts. I have no idea of how to extract a list of URLS out of these desktop shortcuts other than to click each one in Windows, then copy the URL from the browser address bar, and then paste it into a text or html list, rinse and repeat. I do not mind doing this for 2 or 3 shortcuts, but for hundreds of them? No way, would take too long and he will no doubt come back with more. I have a nice Fedora 12 server networked to my computer where I test websites and serve up my own domain. Linux is a very rich scripting evironment, however, I do not have a good enough working knowledge of shell, perl, python, cgi, or any other scripting language to know how to do this. Can somebody help me please come up with a script that will take all desktop shortcuts in a directory, process each one, and add the URL inside to an ongoing list, prefereably clickable html, although plain text would be alright? No, this is not homework or anything like that, this is a real world situation and I just do not have the skill to get it done. Stanley C. Kitching once helped me out with a dandy python script that would take a text FAQ and turn it into a nice, clickable html document with links and named anchors that would really work. A magnificent work, thank you cousin Stanley, if you are still around my friend. Here is what one of the desktop shortcuts looks like so you will see what needs to be done: [DEFAULT] BASEURL=http://www.lincart.com/ [InternetShortcut] URL=http://www.lincart.com/ IDList= [{000214A0-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}] Prop3=19,2 or another one: [DEFAULT] BASEURL=http://www.byroncoons.com/ [InternetShortcut] URL=http://www.byroncoons.com/ IDList= IconFile=http://www.byroncoons.com/favicon.ico IconIndex=1 [{000214A0-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}] Prop3=19,2 The filenames on these things all have spaces in them too, although I have a bulk file renamer that can change the spaces to underscores if needed. Here is a sample listing of files (I have UNIX for Windows installed on Windows 7 so that ls works,) C:\Users\Paul\Documents\PaulsPCWorks\Customers\Jean_Claude_Boutrouille \Links_03-15-2010>ls AbsoluteArts.com.url Art Calendar.url Art-Jean Claude Arts.url ArtJean Claude Boutrouille -.url Artnet -.url Artspan.url Artspan.zip Boca Raton -EXOR.url Boca Raton -Elaine Baker (2).zip Boca Raton -Elaine Baker.url Boca Raton -Elaine Baker.zip Boca Raton -Karen Lynne Gallery.url Boca Raton -Kevin McPherrin.url Boca Raton -Rosenbaum Contemporary.url Boca Raton -Schuyler.url Boca Raton -Sundook Fine Art.url Boca Raton-Addison Gallery.url Boca-Janeris Photography.url Canada-Galerie Simon Blais.url Canada-Landau Fine Art.url Charleston-Eva Carter.url China - Art Galleries - Beijing.url China-10 Chancery Lane Gallery.url Can anybody help with a scripting language or a simple script that will do the things I want done with these files? Take URL out of each desktop shortcut file and put it in an ongoing list, process each shortcut, adding the URL to the list, until all shorcuts are processed and we now have a final list of all the URLs in the shortcuts. A clickable html list would be a big plus, however a plain text list would work fine. Thank you! -- ~Ohmster | ohmster59 /a/t/ gmail dot com Put "messageforohmster" in message body (That is Message Body, not Subject!) to pass my spam filter.
From: John Hasler on 15 Mar 2010 21:01 Create a directory and put all the "shortcuts" it. You'll have to unzip the zips yourself. Make sure all the filenames end in ".url". Don't worry about the spaces. Then run this (untested) command in the directory: grep '^URL=http://' *.url | cut -f2 -d= > urls This will put a list of URLs in the file "urls". Do you want the filename associated with each URL? -- John Hasler jhasler(a)newsguy.com Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA
From: Bit Twister on 15 Mar 2010 21:22 On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:24:20 -0500, Ohmster wrote: > I have no idea > of how to extract a list of URLS out of these desktop shortcuts other You can use grep for extraction. > > Here is what one of the desktop shortcuts looks like so you will see what > needs to be done: > > [DEFAULT] > BASEURL=http://www.lincart.com/ > [InternetShortcut] > URL=http://www.lincart.com/ > IDList= > [{000214A0-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}] > Prop3=19,2 So, your script does something like cd /location/of_shortcuts grep BASEURL= * > urls.txt creates your html header then loops through the urls.txt file and splits line into words using = as separator, output the url with whatever html you like. For extra points, read http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html Untested kludge follows: _out_fn=urls.html echo "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN\"> <!-- save as index.html --> <!-- Enter file:$PWD in browser Location: --> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Local Home Page $PWD</TITLE> <TR> <!-- Background wheat, links blue (unvisited), navy (visited), red (active) --> <BODY BGCOLOR="Wheat" LINK="Blue" VLINK="Red" ALINK="Green" TEXT="Black" <H4 ALIGN="CENTER"> $PWD " > $_out_fn grep BASEURL= * > urls.txt while read -r _line ; do set -- $(echo $_line) echo "<TD><A href=\"$2\">$2</A></TD>" >> $_out_fn done < urls.txt echo " </TR> </h1> </BODY> </HTML> " >> $_out_fn echo "Output in $_out_fn"
From: Bit Twister on 15 Mar 2010 21:24 On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:22:00 +0000 (UTC), Bit Twister wrote: > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:24:20 -0500, Ohmster wrote: >> I have no idea >> of how to extract a list of URLS out of these desktop shortcuts other > oops: forgot to set separator. _out_fn=urls.html echo "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN\"> <!-- save as index.html --> <!-- Enter file:$PWD in browser Location: --> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Local Home Page $PWD</TITLE> <TR> <!-- Background wheat, links blue (unvisited), navy (visited), red (active) --> <BODY BGCOLOR="Wheat" LINK="Blue" VLINK="Red" ALINK="Green" TEXT="Black" <H4 ALIGN="CENTER"> $PWD " > $_out_fn grep BASEURL= * > urls.txt while read -r _line ; do set -- $(IFS='=' ; echo $_line) echo "<TD><A href=\"$2\">$2</A></TD>" >> $_out_fn done < urls.txt echo " </TR> </h1> </BODY> </HTML> " >> $_out_fn echo "Output in $_out_fn"
From: Ohmster on 15 Mar 2010 21:53
Bit Twister <BitTwister(a)mouse-potato.com> wrote in news:slrnhptne1.3cu.BitTwister(a)cooker.home.test: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:22:00 +0000 (UTC), Bit Twister wrote: >> On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:24:20 -0500, Ohmster wrote: >>> I have no idea >>> of how to extract a list of URLS out of these desktop shortcuts >>> other >> > > oops: forgot to set separator. Oh thank you so much Bit Twister. You have been at the help desk for practically my entire life and I have gotten dammed good help from you on many, many occasions. Thank you my friend. Of course I want to pick the script apart and learn it, but I am very tired right now, (Was falling asleep at work at the computer) and need to get this done. I promise to follow up and understand this and will take you up on the extra points from LDAP, but for now, I need a working script. So are you saying that I need to copy and paste what is between these dotted line separators into a text file with vim and execute it? Do I need to put "#!/bin/bash" at the top of it? --------------------------------------------------------------------- _out_fn=urls.html echo "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN\"> <!-- save as index.html --> <!-- Enter file:$PWD in browser Location: --> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Local Home Page $PWD</TITLE> <TR> <!-- Background wheat, links blue (unvisited), navy (visited), red (active) --> <BODY BGCOLOR="Wheat" LINK="Blue" VLINK="Red" ALINK="Green" TEXT="Black" <H4 ALIGN="CENTER"> $PWD " > $_out_fn grep BASEURL= * > urls.txt while read -r _line ; do set -- $(IFS='=' ; echo $_line) echo "<TD><A href=\"$2\">$2</A></TD>" >> $_out_fn done < urls.txt echo " </TR> </h1> </BODY> </HTML> " >> $_out_fn echo "Output in $_out_fn" --------------------------------------------------------------------- That's it? Paste this into a file called geturls in vim, chmod it to 755, and then execute it in the same directory as where all the desktop shortcut files are? Do I need to prepare the desktop shortcut files in any way such as give them all the same extension or remove spaces? Thanks so much Bit, waiting on your reply. -- ~Ohmster | ohmster59 /a/t/ gmail dot com Put "messageforohmster" in message body (That is Message Body, not Subject!) to pass my spam filter. |