[SOLVED] html mail + mutt + urlscan

ss · 2018-06-23 23:47:04

I need to extract urls from some html mails. I know it's utterly stupid, but the source doesn't provide any option of plain text mails.
I edit my ~/.muttrc and ~/.config/mutt/mailcap as suggested in http://jasonwryan.com/blog/2012/05/12/mutt/ . The result is very nice. However, urlscan doesn't work correctly, since it tries to parse and extract the original html mail instead of the parsed result by w3m.

If I just copy to text I see in mutt and pipe it to urlscan, it works perfectly. So how can I tell urlscan to work with the parsed messages in plain text?

I have to following setting in my .muttrc, exactly the same as suggested by man urlscan

# urlscan
macro index,pager \cb "<pipe-message> urlscan -c -n<Enter>" "call urlscan to extract URLs out of a message"
macro attach,compose \cb "<pipe-entry> urlscan -c -n<Enter>" "callurlscan to extract URLs out of a message"

Last edited by ss (2018-06-24 00:12:38)

firecat53 · 2018-06-23 23:57:12

See my response here. Other input welcome!

jasonwryan · 2018-06-23 23:57:49

Use extract_url with the --list option.

ss · 2018-06-24 00:12:15

I have found a solution which works very well for me. I just pipe the raw message to w3m before urlscan.

$ cat ~/.muttrc

# urlscan
macro index,pager \cb "<pipe-message> w3m -I "utf-8" -T text/html | urlscan<Enter>"
macro attach,compose \cb "<pipe-entry> w3m -I "utf-8" -T text/html | urlscan<Enter>"

Apparently, the answer is already in ~/.config/mutt/mailcap, I was too stupid to think of the correlation between them.

$ cat ~/.config/mutt/mailcap

text/html; w3m -I "utf-8" -T text/html; copiousoutput;

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#1 2018-06-23 23:47:04

[SOLVED] html mail + mutt + urlscan

#2 2018-06-23 23:57:12

Re: [SOLVED] html mail + mutt + urlscan

#3 2018-06-23 23:57:49

Re: [SOLVED] html mail + mutt + urlscan

#4 2018-06-24 00:12:15

Re: [SOLVED] html mail + mutt + urlscan

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