Sending emails through Gmail (and other vendors) is easy with AutoHotkey! Check out the video and source script below. Continue reading
Rip the URL from the Clipboard with AutoHotkey
Someone asked me if I had a tool that would look at the clipboard and return only the URL or Rip the URL from the Clipboard. (The clipboard has various formats like: Files, Text, Rich Text Format, HTML, Images, etc.).
I used the cool WinClip library which can be grabbed here: https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/74670-class-winclip-direct-clipboard-manipulations/ and, with the help of maestrith, wrote a script which returns the various items on the clipboard in HTML format as an object.
Rip the URL from the Clipboard
#NoEnv ; Recommended for performance and compatibility with future AutoHotkey releases.
#SingleInstance,Force
SetBatchLines,-1
global Com:=ComObjCreate(“HTMLFile”)
;*******************************************************
Browser_Back:: ;Change this hotkey to what you want
CB:=ClipboardAll
Clipboard:=””
while(Clipboard){
Sleep,10
}
Send,^c
while(!Clipboard){
Sleep,10
}
Clip:=Get_Clipboard_Data() ;Call the function and return the HTML data in an object
MsgBox % clip.1.HREF
DebugWindow(Obj2String(Clip),1,1,200,0)
Clipboard:=CB ;restore Clipboard
return
;********************Grab data from Clipboard***********************************
Get_Clipboard_Data(){
wc := new WinClip
wc.iSnap()
Obj:=[]
try:=wc.iGetHTML()
HTML:=SubStr(Try,InStr(Try,”<HTML>”))
Com.Close()
Com.Write(HTML)
All:=Com.GetElementsByTagName(“a”)
Url:=[]
RegExMatch(Try,”OUi)SourceURL:(.*)\R”,Found)
while(aa:=All.Item[A_Index-1]){
URL.Push({Page:Found.1,Text:aa.InnerText,HREF:aa.HREF})
}
return URL
}
;~ https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/74670-class-winclip-direct-clipboard-manipulations/
#Include B:\Progs\AutoHotkey_L\AHK Work\WinClip\WinClipAPI.ahk
#Include B:\Progs\AutoHotkey_L\AHK Work\WinClip\WinClip.ahk
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In the first hour of the webinar we walked through the process for how to learn anything (including AutoHotkey) quickly
Hour 1: High-level overview
Hour 2: Q&A
Script Highlight: Merging / Appending files of similar structure
- A-Z Database allows for extracting contacts up to 1,000 at a time. Check your local library for access
- For simplification I extracted 25 at a time, then merge together.
- Each csv file has a header row
- Every file has the same headers
- Get the source code here
Learn AutoHotkey quickly
Merging Files with similar structure but removing duplicate headers
I often get text files of similar type (Tab delimited, CSV, etc.) but they all have a header row. A super easy way to merge the data together is to
- Created a folder that only has the files you want to merge
- create a command prompt in the directory
- use the following dos command to merge the files (adjusting the extension to your purpose: copy *.csv merged.csv
This will merge all of the files ending in .csv into the merged.csv file however it keeps all the header rows. 🙁 This annoyed me so I wrote a short program to use AutoHotkey and only keep the first header row. Continue reading
