Is there a way to copy a URL from HTML email rather than opening it in a browser?

Is there a way to copy a URL from HTML email rather than opening it in a browser?

[Steinar Bang]

From time to time I would like to examine the URL a spammer would like
to send me to (to figure what they are trying to make me do and how bad
it would be if I (or someone else) did click the link).

Looking at the raw message is usually useless, since the URL is hidden
in lots of base64 and/or HTML and q-p encoding.

Is there a way to copy out the URL of a link in a parsed and rendered
HTML email?

Re: Is there a way to copy a URL from HTML email rather than opening it in a browser?

[Adam Sjøgren]

Steinar writes:

> Is there a way to copy out the URL of a link in a parsed and rendered
> HTML email?

u is bound to do so, at least when you use shr as the HTML renderer:

,----
| u runs the command shr-maybe-probe-and-copy-url (found in shr-map),
| which is an interactive native-comp-function in ‘shr.el’.
| 
| It is bound to u and w.
`----


  Best regards,

    Adam

-- 
 "The universe has an attitude, mom!"                       Adam Sjøgren
                                                       asjo@koldfront.dk

Re: Is there a way to copy a URL from HTML email rather than opening it in a browser?

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> Adam Sjøgren <asjo@koldfront.dk>:

> Steinar writes:
>> Is there a way to copy out the URL of a link in a parsed and rendered
>> HTML email?

> u is bound to do so, at least when you use shr as the HTML renderer:

That worked perfectly! Thanks!

Used TAB to position the cursor over the desired link, then pressed u
and then switched to the *scratch* buffer and pasted the URL with C-y.

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Re: Is there a way to copy a URL from HTML email rather than opening it in a browser?

[Adam Sjøgren]

Steinar writes:

> That worked perfectly! Thanks!

Great!

> Used TAB to position the cursor over the desired link, then pressed u
> and then switched to the *scratch* buffer and pasted the URL with C-y.

I think it also flashes the url as a message in the mini-buffer, but
that might be too fleeting :-)


  Best regards,

    Adam

-- 
 "Sunday morning when the rain begins to fall               Adam Sjøgren
  It's the end of the world"                           asjo@koldfront.dk