NAME¶
urlscan - browse the URLs in an email message from a terminal
SYNOPSIS¶
urlscan [options] <
message
urlscan [options]
message
DESCRIPTION¶
urlscan accepts a single email message on standard input, then displays a
terminal-based list of the URLs in the given message. Selecting a URL will
invoke
sensible-browser(1) on it (and hence any browser specified in
the
BROWSER environment variable).
urlscan is primarily intended to be used with the
mutt (1)
mailreader, but it should work well with any terminal-based mail program.
urlscan is similar to
urlview(1), but has the following additional
features:
1. Support for more message encodings, such as quoted-printable and
base64.
2. Extraction and display of the context surrounding each URL.
OPTIONS¶
- -b, --background
- Run the Web browser in the background, so you can select
another URL without closing it (this will not work with terminal-based Web
browsers such as lynx, links, or w3m).
- -c, --compact
- Display a simple list of the extracted URLs, instead of
showing the context of each URL.
MUTT INTEGRATION¶
To integrate urlscan with mutt, include the following two commands in
~/.muttrc:
macro index,pager \cb "<pipe-message> urlscan<Enter>"
"call urlscan to extract URLs out of a message"
macro attach,compose \cb "<pipe-entry> urlscan<Enter>"
"call urlscan to extract URLs out of a message"
Once these lines are in your mutt configuration file, pressing Control-b will
allow you to browse and open the URLs in the currently selected message.
SEE ALSO¶
/usr/share/doc/urlscan/README,
sensible-browser(1),
urlview(1),
mutt(1)
AUTHOR¶
This manual page was written by Daniel Burrows
<dburrows@debian.org>.