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somerandomnerd/Automator - turn URL into MarkDown link with page title

Created October 30, 2014 01:17
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A simple shell script to stick into Automator, to take a plain text URL, get the title from the web page, and turn it into a Markdown link. Requires the Nokogiri gem to be installed.
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Automator - turn URL into MarkDown link with page title
require 'open-uri'
require 'nokogiri'
ARGF.each do |f|
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open(f))
print "[" + doc.at_css("title").content.gsub(/\s{2,}/, "") + "]" + "(" + f.strip + ")"
end
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