Solved/found=> URLs to HTML link page.

[smallhagrid]

Howdy Folks.
Sometimes I find myself with a list of a couple dozen URLs that I will want to open in a browser later.

In the past I've made them into a link page via Kompozer, one by one, but that gets tiresome.

Tried searching, but the terms seem too general & I got a zillion unrelated results.

Is there any direct, easy (portable ?!?) app that can take a list of URLs and change them to an HTML link page that anyone knows of ??

Thanks for any help with this.

[Midas]

A simple text editor able to activate URLs -- like NFOPad or editor2, for instance -- will do the trick...

[smallhagrid]

Thanks Very Much for replying Midas !!

I have tried several such editors...and tried that one as a result of your suggestion without delay.
I see how it is that when they are pasted into Editor2 the URL text becomes links.
BUT:
When I saved it to an HTML page and opened it in the browser - it is just plain text again.
Checked all the menus in that too, but even with a 'save as', no such luck.
BooHoo !!

Thanks Again.

PS:
I did find a site that does this, but would prefer a small, local app all the same=>
http://www.textfixer.com/html/convert-u ... l-link.php

[Midas]

FYI, a HTML file is not a simple text file -- it's a specially formatted one: for links to become active, they need to be enclosed in properly formatted <a> tags...

[smallhagrid]

Indeed:

A HTML file is not a simple text file -- it's a specially formatted one: for links to become active, they need to be enclosed in properly formatted <a> tags...

And that is what I seek - a little something that will do that pretty much by pasting in the list then clicking something & saving it out to the desired link page for later use.

As I mentioned in my PS above - that online tool does it nicely, but I'd like to know if a small app exists to do it locally instead.

Thanks !!

[smallhagrid]

TaaDaa !!
Searched on TXT to HTML and found...
'Easy Text To HTML Converter', here:
http://www.easyhtools.com/
Unpacked it with UE, fed it a TXT file...presto - link page generated instantly !!

It could only be a wee bit nicer if'n I could paste a list into it, then do a 'save as', but this'll do for now.

Thanks and Best Wishes.

[joby_toss]

I just bookmark those links in a "Check later" folder.

[Marc]

Maybe I didn't understand it correctly... what about using "Linkify" bookmarklet?
A text file with the links can be drag and droped in Firefox and via the bookmarklet transform urls into links.
In addition a text file with the urls can be created via copying a bookmarks folder and paste it to for example notepad.

[Midas]

What about using "Linkify" bookmarklet?

• Though I also use it, I totally forgot about it. But you're right, it should work, too...

[smallhagrid]

Thanks Folks.

Maybe I didn't understand it correctly... what about using "Linkify" bookmarklet?

My bad, I should have 'splained a bit more from the start...sorry 'bout dat.

Call me insane or whatever you like, but in addition to my various other browsers, I am delighted to use Pocket K-Meleon 1.02 - daily.

It is incredibly light & quick and it does some few things for me much better than the newer, slower, heavier browsers.

I want to make it clear that I am -NOT- trying to make this dear, elderly browser into any replacement for a fully modern browser;
What I desire is to keep it around as a convenience for certain things that it does exceedingly well.
I just really like really old, really simple browsers; and as long as they still work, I use 'em !!

When they don't, I save links that won't open there and open them later in a newer browser...but I start my days with that one, my favourite one of all.

Then during the course of any day I'll switch back and forth between different browsers & versions a bunch of times...K-Meleons, Firefoxes, once in a while even the last original Opera - but NEVER any chrome-things or IE-things a'tall.

I am in no hurry to be pushed into the newest or latest of anything.

If ever some time comes that my preferred browsers quit working altogether, I'll do my browsing from an Android OS, if I must - but for now I'm doing what I may just to stay put with what I like best - and that all is why I sometimes make a page of links for later.

Thanks.

[lintalist]

I don't know if you use AutoHotkey but it would be a very short script that could do it for you.

Just for fun I tried my own program (lintalist) - this is just to show how it can be used.

Say you have select this (can also be clipboard if you change 'selected' to 'clipboard' in the examples)

http://www.google.com
http://www.portablefreeware.com/
http://www.nasa.gov

Option one, using this snippet:

Code: Select all

[[Selected=Wrap|<a href='|'>link</a>]]

gives this result

<a href='http://www.google.com'>link</a>
<a href='http://www.portablefreeware.com/'>link</a>
<a href='http://www.nasa.gov'>link</a>

Of course just having "links" is not that useful, the URL would be nice, so there is option two, same selected text, using this snippet

Code: Select all

[[SplitRepeat=Selected|\n]]
<a href="[[sp=1]]">[[sp=1]]</a>[[C=\n]]

gives this result:

<a href="http://www.google.com">http://www.google.com</a>
<a href="http://www.portablefreeware.com/">http: ... re.com/</a>
<a href="http://www.nasa.gov">http://www.nasa.gov</a>

It is not fool proof of course ...

[smallhagrid]

Thanks Lintalist.
I have not learned AHK (yet ??).

As mentioned up^ there...

Searched on TXT to HTML and found:
'Easy Text To HTML Converter', here=> http://www.easyhtools.com/
Unpacked it with UE, fed it a TXT file...presto - the desired link page was generated instantly !!

Thanks and Best Wishes.

[Stoik]

Easy Text To HTML Converter
has 3 positives on VirusTotal (fresh scan today).

They may well be false positives,
but that always makes me a bit nervous,
and I prefer other (VirusTotal-negative) alternatives - if they exist.

So, for Your convenience,
here is another alternative, VirusTotal-negative,
that does exactly what You want :
DocFrac at
http://docfrac.net/wordpress/

[smallhagrid]

Thank You Stoik, I will try that.

Edit:
OK, I did.
For whatever reason, it did not open/run on my system.

The other app however ('Easy Text To HTML Converter'), once unpacked and stripped down, appears to be fine, so I guess it's to be that one, at least for now.

I am always grateful when UE does such an excellent work of allowing me to greenify apps rather than having to use their (too often undesirable) installers.

Thanks.