From: Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>
To: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is there a better (built-in) way to insert an org link with title as description?
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 18:01:56 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <68592813-e8d4-a9d6-cb3d-51804236413d@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM9PR09MB49774D0B1A6C2BE73E27FA819639A@AM9PR09MB4977.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com>
On 19/07/2023 19:06, Arthur Miller wrote:
> I want to auto insert a title from an HTML page as description for an org link in
> my notes.
> (defun org-link-from-clipboard ()
...
> (url-retrieve url
> (lambda (buffer)
> (goto-char (point-min))
> (when (re-search-forward "<title>\\(.*\\)</title>" nil t)
What are origins of your links?
If it is an URL opened in browser then `org-capture' or
org-protocol:/store-link/ may be used. There are a number of browser
extensions for that.
More metadata sometimes desired and just page title is not enough. For
extracting it within Emacs see e.g. Ihor's
https://github.com/yantar92/org-capture-ref
Search for its discussions on this mailing lists.
Some complications:
- titles may have &...; entities
- Not all pages have <title>, so heuristics have to be used.
- Some HTML files contains nothing besides JavaScript to load actual content
- Some URLs are from minifiers or obfuscated by Outlook "protection",
trampolines to prevent leaking of data through the Referer header, etc.
Likely redirection target should be saved, not original URL.
- Some sites like GitHub have API that allows to get metadata in JSON
format. It is better than parsing HTML with regexp.
Anyway I suggest to split non-interactive part of the command to allow
code reuse (for drag and drop, etc.).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-07-20 11:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-19 12:06 Is there a better (built-in) way to insert an org link with title as description? Arthur Miller
2023-07-20 10:04 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-21 14:18 ` Arthur Miller
2023-07-22 8:26 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-27 6:26 ` Arthur Miller
2023-07-20 11:01 ` Max Nikulin [this message]
2023-07-21 13:04 ` Arthur Miller
2023-07-22 2:49 ` Max Nikulin
2023-07-22 10:55 ` Ihor Radchenko
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