Copy links from web pages easily
As part of my day job, I needed to get people to correct a lot of posts on Wordpress blogs. I wanted to create a table which would help the person doing the majority of the work, so all he need do is click on the links. For this, I had to copy the links of all the posts, on multiple blogs (I’m talking about hundreds here) and I found a tool to make this all relatively quickly possible.
A Firefox Addon, the aptly named Copy Links came to my rescue. This little addon embeds itself into the right-click menu and enables you to either copy all links on a page, or copy just the selected links. They are all neatly copied in separate lines, so copying them into a text or Excel file is simple.
One of the features of the Wordpress post management interface is that it gives you the posts in a table form. If you click on box around the first “View” link, pres control and while keeping things clicked you drag down, you should be able to select all links vertically. Then I just needed to right-click and select “copy selected links” and voila!
While I used this for a very specific reason, it could do a lot of good in other places as well. If you want to see if your site has been tampered with, you can keep a record of all your links. Then just copy all the links on the site and see if there are any discrepancies. A great tool for a simple job.
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