Re: Smart processing of http(s) links

[bonfacemunyoki@gmail.com (Bonface M. K.)]

Ag Ibragimov <agzam.ibragimov@gmail.com> writes:

> Oh cool. This is exactly what I needed:
>
> I was able to build this:
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> (defun get-gh-item-title (uri &optional include-number?)
>   "Based on given github URI for (pull request or an issue),
>   returns its title"
>   (when (string-match "\\(github.com\\).*\\(issues\\|pull\\)" uri) ; either PR or issue
>     (pcase-let* ((`(_ _ ,owner ,repo ,type ,number) (remove "" (split-string uri "/")))
>                  (gh-resource (format "/repos/%s/%s/%s/%s"
>                                       owner
>                                       repo
>                                       (if (string= type "pull") "pulls" type)
>                                       number))
>                  (resp (ghub-get gh-resource nil :auth 'forge)))
>       (when resp
>         (format "%s%s" (alist-get 'title resp)
>                 (when include-number? (format " #%s" number)))))))
>
> (defun org-link-make-description-function* (link desc)
>   (cond ((string-match "\\(github.com\\).*\\(issues\\|pull\\)" link)
>          (get-gh-item-title link :with-number))
>         (t desc)))
>
> (setq org-link-make-description-function 'org-link-make-description-function*)
> #+end_src
>

Thanks for this!

> https://gist.github.com/agzam/b2f2d441acb96e1d693a2c81e9c4518f
> On Sun 28 Jun 2020 at 14:02, Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> wrote:
>
>> Ag Ibragimov writes:
>>
>>> Whenever I I use org-insert-link and it turns out to be a URI that
>>> starts with "https://github.com" I would like it to be processed
>>> differently than any other link, one example - if it is a PR or a
>>> Github Issue, I'd like it to fetch summary(title) of it and create a
>>> link that looks like this:
>>>
>>> [[https://github.com/user/repo/issues/3899][This issue needs to be fixed #3899]]
>>>
>>> Do we have any "built-in" mechanism for doing something like this? Can
>>> someone suggest how I can make it. Thank you!
>>
>> You can set org-link-make-description-function to a function that
>> detects links of interest and generates a custom description.
>
>

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