Open URLs in Tabs (an update to Gruber's instant classic perl script) see: http://log.tofias.net/scripts

Open URLs in Safari Tabs.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl

# Description: http://daringfireball.net/2010/08/open_urls_in_safari_tabs
# License: See below.
# http://gist.github.com/507356

# UPDATE for "Create and run the AppleScript" portion of Gruber's original script
# http://gist.github.com/1990793

use strict;
use warnings;
use URI::Escape;

my $text = do { local $/; <> };
my @urls;
my $url_regex = qr{(?xi)
\b
(							# Capture 1: entire matched URL
  (?:
    [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
  )
)
};

# Build an AppleScript-syntax list of the URLs in the input text.
while ($text =~ m{$url_regex}g) {
	my $u = $1;
	$u =~ s{([\x{80}-\x{ffff}])}{uri_escape($1)}eg; # Encode non-ASCII characters
	push @urls, qq{"$u"};
}
my $urls_as_applescript_list = join ", ", @urls;

# Get the user's default web browser; if it isn't Safari or WebKit, use Safari
# in the AppleScript. (And also use Safari if the backticks command fails.)
my $browser = `export VERSIONER_PERL_PREFER_32_BIT=yes; /usr/bin/perl -MMac::InternetConfig -le 'print +(GetICHelper "http")[1]'`;
chomp $browser;
unless ($browser =~ /^(?:Safari|WebKit)$/i) {
	$browser = "Safari";
}

# Create and run the AppleScript.
my $applescript = <<"END_SCRIPT";
set _url_list to {$urls_as_applescript_list}
set _tab to 1
repeat with _url in _url_list
	tell application "$browser"
		if _tab is 1 then 
			make new document at end of documents
			set URL of document 1 to _url
			set _tab to 0
		else
			tell window 1 to set URL of (make new tab) to _url
		end if
	end tell
end repeat
END_SCRIPT

print $applescript;

system("/usr/bin/osascript", "-e", $applescript);

__END__

LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2012 Michael Tofias

Permission is hereby granted in the same manner of John Gruber's below.

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Copyright (c) 2011 John Gruber

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Instructions for using with Alfred and a suggested icon.