autolink

automatically detect the title of a link

NOTE: I no longer use this script, and it is not maintained. Instead, I use citewebgen, which is a JavaScript version of this that works directly from the browser, and works as a bookmarklet.

usage: autolink.py [-h] [-f FILETYPE] [-C] [-R] [-v] url

autolink v2

positional arguments:
  url                   the URL

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -f FILETYPE, --filetype FILETYPE
                        output filetype
  -C, --citation        produce citation-style link instead of a hyperlink
  -R, --reference       produce a reference-style link for filetypes that
                        support it
  -v, --verbose         enable debug messages

Examples

Below % indicates the shell prompt.

% URL='http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2013/04/5-common-mistakes-with-relcanonical.html' ; curl --silent --compressed -L "$URL" | ./autolink.py -f markdown -C "$URL"
["5 common mistakes with rel=canonical"](http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2013/04/5-common-mistakes-with-relcanonical.html "“5 common mistakes with rel=canonical”. Official Google Webmaster Central Blog.")
% URL='http://predictionbook.com/predictions/8161'
% curl --silent --compressed -L $URL | \
    ./autolink.py -f mediawiki -C $URL
<ref>{{cite web |url=http://predictionbook.com/predictions/8161 |title=PredictionBook: LSD: I will experience any kind of 'flashback' within 5 years. |accessdate=September 7, 2016}}</ref>

Contributing

All contributions are to use the same license as in the LICENSE file.