{"id":5871,"date":"2011-01-08T18:46:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T18:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=5871"},"modified":"2011-01-08T18:46:12","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T18:46:12","slug":"how-to-copy-urls-with-their-anchor-text-alongside-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2011\/01\/08\/how-to-copy-urls-with-their-anchor-text-alongside-them\/","title":{"rendered":"How to copy URLs with their anchor text alongside them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The excellent free <a href=\"http:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/13494\/\">MultiLinks addon<\/a> for Firefox can be a handy way to open links in many tabs.  Just <strong>Crtl<\/strong> + <strong>right mouse-click<\/strong> and drag a box around the links you want to open. Then when you release the mouse, your selected links spring into life as new tabs all busy loading pages.<\/p>\n<p>But MultiLinks can <em>also<\/em> work as a very handy links harvester, neatly copying URLs complete with their anchor text to the clipboard.  That can certainly beat ferreting around among the code in &#8216;View Source&#8217;.  Here&#8217;s how to do it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong>. Install MultiLinks.  Then go to Tools | Addons&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2011\/01\/addons.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"addons\" width=\"264\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5872\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>2<\/strong>. Click the &#8220;Options&#8221; button on the MultiLinks listing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2011\/01\/toolsaddons.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"toolsaddons\" width=\"197\" height=\"98\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5873\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>3<\/strong>. Change the behaviour of MultiLinks to: Copy to Clipboard | URLs with Titles&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2011\/01\/multi-links-prefs.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"multi-links-prefs\" width=\"301\" height=\"392\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5874\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>4<\/strong>. You can also tell it to ignore everything <em>except<\/em> the main links, on pages of Google Search results&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2011\/01\/smart-select.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"smart-select\" width=\"298\" height=\"391\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5875\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>5<\/strong>. Now when you Crtl + right-click and drag a box around some Web links, when you release the mouse button those URLs and their anchor (title) text are placed on your clipboard.  Not  very useful, unless Excel 2007 automatically places these side-by-side in different columns.   Thankfully it does&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2011\/01\/bananas.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"bananas\" width=\"440\" height=\"105\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5876\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>6<\/strong>.  Now you can use Excel to automatically turn them back into HTML links, as soon as you paste them into your spreadsheet.  My ready-made spreadsheet with formula applied is <a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/URL-maker.xlsx\">URL-maker.xlsx<\/a>.  It uses the simple concatenation (&#8216;combine columns&#8217;) formula: =C2&amp;B2&amp;D2&amp;A2&amp;E2<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2011\/01\/urlform.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2011\/01\/urlform.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"urlform\" width=\"490\" height=\"173\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5881\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The excellent free MultiLinks addon for Firefox can be a handy way to open links in many tabs. Just Crtl &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2011\/01\/08\/how-to-copy-urls-with-their-anchor-text-alongside-them\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jurn-tips-and-tricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}