A year or so ago I wrote a post on how to use xargs to open a bunch of urls that were in your clipboard. But it turns out that in newer versions of OS X something broke, deliberately or otherwise, and that method no longer works. Well, it works fine, it’s just *too* fast. So today I needed to check about a hundred urls.. and so it was time to fix that script. I’ve been slowly working on learning Python, so I decided to use that.. and this is what I ended up with:
#! /usr/bin/python
import webbrowser
import pyperclip
import time
url_list = pyperclip.paste()
clean_list = url_list.splitlines(False)
for x in clean_list:
webbrowser.open(x)
time.sleep(.5)
It only took me about an hour 😉
What does it do? It grabs the clipboard, splits each line inside the clipboard at the return character, and then there is a loop which tells the browser to open the url .. wait a half second and then do it again.
I’d like to figure out how to grab the clipboard and clean it in one line.. but that’s for another day!
Back to work..