Web Link Captor - Tips and Tricks and Share Your Scripts

[mouser]

Thought I'd start a thread for tips and tricks of using Web Link Captor, and for sharing custom scripts that people have written.


Here's a quick trick:
If you have a list of urls, you can get WLC to make a nice list for you that automatically fetches the web page titles for each and produces a nice formatted list from them.

Example, inputs:

Code: Text [Select]

1. http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-screen-capture-utility.htm
2. http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/12/5-alternatives-to-paypal/
3. http://www.rgdot.com/bl/

Now i set my output format to: --format bbcode --hrlink --hrtitle --rmax 0 --hlist

And click run, and the result is:

• Best Free Screen Capture Utility
• 5 Alternatives to PayPal | GeekDad | Wired.com
• RGdot - Freeware blog, software tips and giveaways

I'd like to invite anyone who has written a custom script/tool for Web Link Captor to please share it.  And I'm happy to help people get started writing them -- so just holler if you get stuck.

[mouser]

One thing that would be nice is if someone would implement a search script to query google's *NEW* search api -- I somehow used the old one.

If any python coder wants to take a try at it, just start with the skeleton of code in my google search script and go from there, and ask me any questions