How to Use RegEx to Extract URL and Link Text from HTML Anchor Code?

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One of those cases where DOM and XPath (through an Execute Javascript in browser) is probably a lot simpler than string and regex.

If you look at the JavaScript snippet in the post below, you will see that once you have the link node in the DOM you can directly read off the .href and .text properties.

Copy selected link(s) from browser as markdown?

FWIW here is a simple interim macro: Copy slngle selected link as Markdown (Chrome or Safari) Copy single link as Markdown.kmmacros (24.0 KB) [image] It executes this in the foreground browser (Chrome or Safari): (function (oNode) { var oLink = document.evaluate( "./ancestor-or-self::a", oNode, null, 0, 0 ).iterateNext(); return oLink ? "[" + oLink.text + "](" + oLink.href + ")" : ""; })(window.getSelection().anchorNode);