Script to open URLs from pasteboard. For use with FastScripts.

Open URLs from Pastboard.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# encoding: UTF-8

# URL regexp from http://daringfireball.net/2010/07/improved_regex_for_matching_urls
# URL regexp adapted to have captures removed

RX_URL = %r[
  \b
  (?:
    [a-z][\w-]+:                # URL protocol and colon
    (?:
      /{1,3}                        # 1-3 slashes
      |                             #   or
      [a-z0-9%]                     # Single letter or digit or '%'
                                    # (Trying not to match e.g. "URI::Escape")
    )
    |                           #   or
    www\d{0,3}[.]               # "www.", "www1.", "www2." … "www999."
    |                           #   or
    [a-z0-9.\-]+[.][a-z]{2,4}/  # looks like domain name followed by a slash
  )
  (?:                           # One or more:
    [^\s()<>]+                      # Run of non-space, non-()<>
    |                               #   or
    \((?:[^\s()<>]+|(?:\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\)  # balanced parens, up to 2 levels
  )+
  (?:                           # End with:
    \((?:[^\s()<>]+|(?:\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\)  # balanced parens, up to 2 levels
    |                                   #   or
    [^\s`!()\[\]{};:'".,<>?«»“”‘’]        # not a space or one of these punct chars
  )]xi

urls = `pbpaste`.scan(RX_URL)
system 'open', *urls unless urls.empty?