Title as description in web link

Title as description in web link

[Cecil Westerhof]

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I have created some links to web pages. In almost al cases I want the
description to be the title of the page. Is there a way to make the default
description the title of a web page?

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Cecil Westerhof

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Re: Title as description in web link

[Nick Dokos]

Cecil Westerhof <cldwesterhof@gmail.com> writes:

> I have created some links to web pages. In almost al cases I want the description to be the title of the
> page. Is there a way to make the default description the title of a web page?
>

Write a function that uses the link to fetch the page and parse it for the title?

I wouldn't be surprised if somebody has already written something like this, but it
should(TM) be fairly easy to roll your own.

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Nick

Re: Title as description in web link

[mediapathic steen]

Someone has indeed: https://github.com/rexim/org-cliplink

It's designed around a linux system, but I am using it just fine on my mac. If you are not on either of those OSs it might still be a good starting point. Alternately/additionally, if you are on a mac, https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-mac-link.html has similar functionality. I use both of these regularly. 

Cheers,
-- Steen 

> On Apr 6, 2018, at 11:53 AM, Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Cecil Westerhof <cldwesterhof@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> I have created some links to web pages. In almost al cases I want the description to be the title of the
>> page. Is there a way to make the default description the title of a web page?
>> 
> 
> Write a function that uses the link to fetch the page and parse it for the title?
> 
> I wouldn't be surprised if somebody has already written something like this, but it
> should(TM) be fairly easy to roll your own.
> 
> -- 
> Nick
> 
>