Extract URLs Action for Mac

Overview

What Extract URLs does

Finds HTTP, HTTPS, www-style, and protocol-free domain links, removes surrounding sentence punctuation, ignores domains inside email addresses, preserves balanced URL brackets, and returns one unique URL per line.

Category	Extraction
Action type	JavaScript
Default result	Copy the result
Internet	Not required

Example

Action and outcome

Extract URLs example
Action	Outcome
Extract URLsSelected text: See example.com/docs, then https://actionclip.app.	example.com/docs https://actionclip.app

Workflow

Use Extract URLs

Follow these steps to extract unique web URLs from selected text with ActionClip.

Select the text you want to use.
Choose Extract URLs from ActionClip.
Review the extracted result, then copy it where you need it.

Before you add it

Requirements and privacy

Before you start: No setup required.
Your selected text: Runs locally in ActionClip’s JavaScript sandbox. Selected text does not leave your Mac.

Inspect before installing

Action script

The script below is included so you can inspect how the action works before downloading it.

JavaScript definition

function run(selected_text) {
  const domainLabel = "(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]{0,61}[a-z0-9])?)";
  const topLevelDomain = "(?:[a-z]{2,63}|xn--[a-z0-9-]{2,59})";
  const bareDomain = "(?:" + domainLabel + "\\.)+" + topLevelDomain;
  const explicitURL = "(?:https?:\\/\\/|www\\.)[^\\s<>\\\"']+";
  const domainURL = bareDomain
    + "(?::\\d{2,5})?"
    + "(?:\\/[^\\s<>\\\"']*)?"
    + "(?:\\?[^\\s<>\\\"']*)?"
    + "(?:#[^\\s<>\\\"']*)?";
  const pattern = new RegExp("\\b(?:" + explicitURL + "|" + domainURL + ")", "gi");
  const matches = Array.from(selected_text.matchAll(pattern))
    .filter((match) => match.index === 0 || selected_text[match.index - 1] !== "@")
    .map((match) => match[0]);

  function trimTrailingPunctuation(value) {
    let result = value.replace(/[.,;:!?]+$/g, "");
    const pairs = [["(", ")"], ["[", "]"], ["{", "}"]];
    pairs.forEach(([opening, closing]) => {
      while (result.endsWith(closing)) {
        const opens = result.split(opening).length - 1;
        const closes = result.split(closing).length - 1;
        if (closes <= opens) break;
        result = result.slice(0, -1);
      }
    });
    return result;
  }

  const seen = new Set();
  const urls = [];
  matches.map(trimTrailingPunctuation).forEach((url) => {
    if (!seen.has(url)) {
      seen.add(url);
      urls.push(url);
    }
  });
  return urls.length ? urls.join("\n") : "No URLs found.";
}