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:
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> Cecil Westerhof <cldwesterhof@gmail.com> writes:
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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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> Write a function that uses the link to fetch the page and parse it for the title?
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> 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
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