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Feature request: Copy multiple article URLs

Open thefranke opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

Description

I'm using NetNewsWire regularly to pull for instance videos from multiple sites. The workflow is as follows:

  • Right click Copy Article URL from RSS entry
  • Paste into terminal with some scraping tool

I have to do this for each item individually. Ideally, there could be a Copy Article URL menu entry when selecting mutliple items in the feed, which will put a string of all article URLs separated by spaces into the clipboard.

Example

I have selected 3 entries in the feed, pointing to https://url1.com, https://url2.com and https://url3.com. When selecting all three and using Copy Article URL the clipboard contains "https://url1.com" "https://url2.com" "https://url3.com"

thefranke avatar Sep 21 '22 13:09 thefranke

Check out third party clipboard managers like Pastebot or the ones built into tools like Alfred and Launchbar. They often have a feature that lets you concatenate instead of replace when copying or pasting from history like popping from a stack. Then you'd have this feature system wide instead of in select apps!

pdokas avatar Sep 21 '22 15:09 pdokas

@pdokas Thanks for the suggestion, I'll give it a try. However, one thing this does not solve is that I'd still have to go through each individual item and select Copy Article URL instead of just selecting a bunch and getting the entire list with one click.

thefranke avatar Sep 21 '22 15:09 thefranke