Simple pair of TextExpander snippets to grab the frontmost URL in Safari, copy it to the clipboard then make a markdown link from it. I needed this because I use a Popclip extension that allows me to copy selected text from a page and make a new note in nvAlt. Doing so takes me away from the browser, and I wanted a quick and handy way to create …

markdown_link

## Again, note the snippet abbreviation from the safari_link_clipboard snippet
## This should be a default plain text snippet

%snippet:slink#%

[%filltext:name=Title%](%clipboard%)

safari_link_clipboard

## What ever you abbreviate this snippet as, you will need to reference in the markdown_link  snippet. I used slink#
## Make sure to set the type of snippet to Applescript, TE defaults to plain text
tell application "Safari"
  set theURL to URL of front document
  set the clipboard to theURL as string
end tell

Note you will probably never directly call safari_link_snippet, but it needs an abbreviation to be used in other snippets, which could be handy in a variety of uses.