extract_url.pl is a Perl script that extracts URLsfrom either correctly-encoded MIME email messagesor from plain text. It can be used either as apre-parser for a URL selector (such as urlview),or as a standalone URL selector. It is veryconfigurable, can handle URLs that have beenbroken over several lines in format=floweddelsp=yes email messages, and eliminates duplicateURLs. It was designed primarily for use with Mutt,but can be used by for any similar purpose. Theidea is that if you want to access a URL in anemail, you pipe the email to a URL extractor (likethis one), which then lets you select a URL toview in some third program (such as Firefox).License: BSD License (original)Changes:
This release has better contextual text handling (it uses word boundaries instead of explicit string lengths), and pulls URLs out of HTML text in addition to HTML tags. This may be somewhat sensitive to formatting issues (unexpected line breaks, etc).