urlscan ☆
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Description:
View/select the URLs in an email message or file
Type: Formula  |  Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025
Links: Homepage  |  formulae.brew.sh
Category: Productivity
Tags: cli urls email productivity terminal
Install: brew install urlscan
About:
Urlscan is a command-line utility that parses email messages or text files to extract and display URLs. It presents these links in a user-selectable list, allowing users to quickly open them in a web browser or copy them to the clipboard without manually parsing text.
Key Features:
  • Extracts URLs from plain text, email files, and piped input
  • Provides an interactive curses-based interface for selecting links
  • Supports opening selected URLs directly in $BROWSER
  • Can copy selected URLs to the system clipboard
Use Cases:
  • Safely inspecting and opening links from suspicious or plain-text emails
  • Quickly harvesting URLs from logs, documentation, or terminal output
  • Streamlining workflows that require fetching multiple links from text
Alternatives:
  • urlview – Classic pager-style URL extractor; urlscan offers a more modern interface and clipboard support
  • grep -oE – Basic regex extraction lacks interactivity and browser/clipboard integration
Version History
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Nov 18, 2024 7:47pm 0 VERSION_BUMP 2267af03
Nov 18, 2024 7:05pm 0 VERSION_BUMP 56a9597a
Oct 11, 2024 9:22pm 0 VERSION_BUMP 28482c54
Sep 11, 2024 11:56pm 0 VERSION_BUMP 7cfd7c82
Jul 16, 2024 3:46pm 0 VERSION_BUMP fb707055
Apr 29, 2024 9:00pm 0 VERSION_BUMP cc761ca7
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