Re: lynx-dev How to get all the lynks in a page ?

[David Combs]

Maybe some of these scripts should be included in a
hints&tricks faq or part of THE faq, with a how-to like
your post:

> From address@hidden Wed Jul 29 09:48:24 1998
> From: Al Gilman <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: lynx-dev How to get all the lynks in a page ?
> 
> Actually, Nicholas, can you tolerate about four keystrokes
> instead of one?
> 
> As Lloyd said, the list-links function does most of what you
> want.  From there you want to go to P)rint and install as a
> printer your routine that filters the print image of the list of
> links and does with it what you need.
> 
> This will separate what you do from lynx upgrades.  You will only
> need to change your routine when the format of the list-links
> page changes enough to break your filter.
> 
> If you were to change the source it might be to add the option to
> send HTML source to an external "printer" instead of formatted
> text.
> 
> I think you will find there are people on the list who already
> have scripts that grab the list of links from the foot of a
> dumped page.
> 
> Al
>