CleanURL

CleanURL.py

import re
import string
import console
import urllib
import sys
import clipboard
import webbrowser
 
console.clear()

# Count arguments passed to script, if less than 2 run regex against clipboard
numArgs = len(sys.argv)
 
if numArgs == 2:
    redirect = sys.argv[1]
elif numArgs < 2:
    redirect = clipboard.get()
    
# Provided by Peter Hansen on StackOverflow:
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1986059/grubers-url-regular-expression-in-python/1986151#1986151
pat = r'\b(([\w-]+://?|www[.])[^\s()<>]+(?:\([\w\d]+\)|([^%s\s]|/)))'
pat = pat % re.escape(string.punctuation)
 

match = re.findall(pat, redirect)
 
if match:
    for x in match:
        console.show_activity()
        # Get the first match without redirects
        cleaned = urllib.urlopen(x[0]).geturl()
        # Get direct image link
        cleaned = cleaned.replace('www.dropbox.com', 'dl.dropboxusercontent.com')
        title = console.input_alert('Image text', 'Type the image alt text below.')
        final = '![' + title + '](' + cleaned + ')'
        clipboard.set(final)
        print 'Done.'
elif not match:
    console.alert('No match found')