URL Lister - Firefox Plugin

URL Lister is a Firefox Plugin that shows the URLs of all the open tabs in a textarea so that it can be copied easily.

Download/Install

If you have installed it, consider rating it or reviewing it at Firefox plugins sandbox. Go to the public page for URL Lister and write a review for the application. I need reviews to promote it to the main extensions page - sandbox plugins are for registered users only.

Usage

Lets say you have these four tabs open...

Right click any tab and click on the 'URL Lister...' to open up the main dailog. You can also use 'Tools > URL Lister'. You will find the URLs of all the open tabs there.

There is a drop down menu at the bottom - it has these three options...

Plain Text

The first option will display just the URLs - like this...

http://www.openjs.com/
http://www.bin-co.com/
http://lindesk.com/
http://blog.binnyva.com/

HTML Anchors

The second option will create HTML Links with a <br /> tag at the end of each line - like this...

<a href="http://www.openjs.com/">OpenJS - JavaScript, Opened.</a><br />
<a href="http://www.bin-co.com/">Bin-Co</a><br />
<a href="http://lindesk.com/">LinDesk</a><br />
<a href="http://blog.binnyva.com/">BinnyVA</a><br />

It will use the title of the tab as the link text. You can use this code directly in any HTML page.

OpenJS - JavaScript, Opened.
Bin-Co
LinDesk
BinnyVA

Linked List

The final option will create a <ul> list with the links of all the open tabs - something like this...

<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.openjs.com/">OpenJS - JavaScript, Opened.</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.bin-co.com/">Bin-Co</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lindesk.com/">LinDesk</a></li>
<li><a href="http://blog.binnyva.com/">BinnyVA</a></li>
</ul>

Open URLs

If you have a list of URLs and want to open them all, all you have to do is copy those URLs into this dialog and press OK - this will open up all the given URLs.

Comments

Anonymous at 17 Jun, 2008 08:11

works perfect!
It was just what I was looking for!. (I needed a quick way to copy lots of URLs opened in tabs, so I can feed a script with them...)

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Anonymous at 26 Jul, 2008 03:01

Is now showing up in Firefox 3 as 'Not compatible with Firefox 3.01'

Any plans to update this?

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Binny V A at 11 Aug, 2008 01:35

Updated - sorry it look this long.

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Anonymous at 02 Oct, 2008 08:03

Window Key for Url List ?

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Anonymous at 13 Feb, 2009 02:01

I have been wanting a firefox extension that can do the following. Say I have 10 tabs. I want to create a new window with tabs 5-10, then delete tabs 5-10 from the current window. The result is two windows, one with tabs 1 - 4, and another with tabs 5 - 10 (from the original 10 tab window). Essential split the window in two. Maybe it could work by right click on a tab and select an option like "split into new window ...". Seems like URL Lister has some of the functions needed to do what I want. I could list the 10 URLs for the 10 tabs. The delete the first N URLs, then open the remaining URLs (10 - N) in a new window, where N = 4 in my example above. Have you considered making such an extension (or enhancement to URL Lister)?

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Anonymous at 22 Feb, 2009 08:18

Hi,

I downloaded your plug in to try it. I wanted to be able to open a list of urls by cutting and pasting into your window as described. It doesn't work for the url's if they don't have the www. prefix.

Is it possible for you to automatically add the http:// for lines where it doesn't exist? You could test for it's presence, then append OR, Firefox 3 is smart enough to recognize it, but your plug in won't open the tab unless it sees the prefix. Maybe you could simply open a tab for each entry regardless of the format. Worst case would be that urls that didn't resolve would receive a error.

To summarize, i'm suggesting you open a tab for each line, with whatever is in that line. If you do that, i'll be sure to write a glowing review.

This has the start to being a great plugin.
Keep up the great work.

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Anonymous at 22 Feb, 2009 08:21

UPDATE TO LAST POST. The comments software you're using perverted my text above, and obfuscated a critical piece of my information. I will rewrite it here with spaces between each character. You need to remove the spaces:

"it doesn't work for the url's if they don't have the: h t t p : / / w w w . prefix. "

Thanks and sorry for the confusion.

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George Baily at 02 Jun, 2009 07:25

This is an absolute MUST HAVE plugin for SEO type people. I am constantly creating csv's of URLs to research / submit content to, and it's such a time saver just to dump in a whole list of URLs to open.

Other uses I love it for:
* dump in a text file containing scattered URLs, it ignores all the text and only opens the URLs
* batch editing of website "backend" pages, where only one variable in a URL changes like a product ID or post ID, create the sequence of pages using excel and then open loads at a time, and log progress in excel

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Anonymous at 28 Jun, 2009 01:32

Awesome! Thanks for sharing your wonderful plugin its cool! bob, @ Gadget Shop

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