NAME

     urlview — extract URLs, launch associated program

SYNOPSIS

     urlview [-line] [file]…

DESCRIPTION

     Scans each file (standard input stream if "-", the default) for URLs, then shows them in a
     curses(3) menu.  (If the standard output stream is not a teletype: writes them, one per
     line, thereto.)

     The menu allows viewing, searching, editing, and opening the URLs in the appropriate
     program.
     URLs are shown in order, but multiple instances of the same URL are deduplicated case-
     insensitively!

     If -line is given, where line is a decimal integer, then the first URL at or following that
     line is selected automatically, instead of the first.

   Bindings
     ↓, j, Scroll down  Select next URL.
     ↑, k, Scroll up    Select previous URL.
     e                  Edit selected URL, confirm with ↵.
     ↵, ␣               If EDIT is yes: run e.  Then open selected URL with COMMAND or $BROWSER.
     Mouse button 1     Select the URL under the cursor, then ↵.
     [0-9]…             Jump to numbered URL, confirm with ↵.  URLs are numbered from 1.
     y                  Copy selected URL to XSELECTION with xclip(1)/xsel(1)/wl-copy(1).
     Mouse button 3     Select the URL under the cursor, then y.
     Home, =            Select first URL.
     End, *, G          Select last URL.
     Page Down, ^F      Next page.
     Page Up, ^B        Previous page.
     /                  Enter regex to search URLs forward by; confirm with ↵.
     ?                  Enter regex to search URLs backward by; confirm with ↵.
     n                  Search URLs forward with saved search (prompt if none).
     N                  Search URLs backward with saved search (prompt if none).
     ^L, ^G             Redraw screen.
     q, x, h            Exit.

     Full mutt(1)-style line editing is supported (incl. ^I (Tab) to erase to end of line).
     During entry, ^G cancels.

ENVIRONMENT

     BROWSER        Overrides the built-in default for COMMAND if not specified in Configuration,
     URLVIEW_DEBUG  Behave as-if the standard output stream weren't a teletype.

FILES

     The first extant of ~/.urlview, /etc/urlview/system.urlview is read.  In this case, the
     defaults may be overridden through a simple line-based "setting whitespace value" format.
     Empty lines and lines starting with ‘#’es are ignored.

   Configuration
     REGEXP ere       Use the specified case-insensitive extended regular expression to match
                      URLs.  "\n", "\r", "\t", and "\f" are replaced with the new-line, the
                      carriage return, the horizontal tab, and the form feed, respectively.  The
                      default is:
                          ((http|https|ftp|gopher|gemini|mailto):(//)?[^ <>"\t]*|(www|ftp)[0-9]?\.[-a-z0-9.]+)[^ .,;\t\n\r<">\):]?[^, <>"\t]*[^ .,;\t\n\r<">\):]

     COMMAND prog     Run shell program, subject to VIA, when an URL is opened.
                      prog may contain multiple programs, delimited by ‘:’s; they are tried in
                      order until one exits 0.
                      Shadows $BROWSER.  Defaults to "/etc/urlview/url_handler.sh".
     VIA argument     Run prog, followed by a space and the quoted URL.  If prog contains "%s",
                      that is instead replaced with the quoted URL.
                      This may leave the URL visible in to other users in /proc.  This is the
                      default.
     VIA environment  Set the URL environment variable to the URL, then run prog verbatim.
     VIA pipe         Run prog verbatim with a line containing the URL piped via the standard
                      input stream.

     These two are only useful with VIA=argument:
     BROWSER          Unshadows $BROWSER even if COMMAND is set.
     EXPERT           Allows 's in COMMAND: the URL to be opened is substituted as a quoted word
                      using '.  If prog is, for example "w3m '%s' -N", this would defeat this
                      quoting, and run the URL as code.  If you're sure your progs don't quote
                      the URL — for example "lynx %s -cookie_file='/tmp/lynx cookies'" — it's
                      safe to enable EXPERT.

     EDIT no|yes      Edit the selected URL before opening it.  The default is no.
     WRAP no|yes      When at the last URL, allow ↓ to go to the first, and vice versa.  The
                      default is no.
     MOUSE yes|no     Enable mouse support.  The default is yes.
     XSELECTION buf   yank (copy) to buf.  If $WAYLAND_DISPLAY is set, selects between wl-copy -p
                      if "primary" and wl-copy (clipboard) if anything else.  If $DISPLAY is set,
                      given to xclip -selection buf or xsel --buf directly (so the domain is
                      likely primary|secondary|clipboard).  The default is primary.

     yes, no, argument, environment, and pipe are case-insensitive.

EXIT STATUS

     1 if no URLs were found, the effective COMMAND contained a ' and EXPERT wasn't enabled with
     VIA=argument.  WRAP/EDIT/MOUSE/VIA received an invalid value, ere isn't a valid ERE, an
     unknown setting was specified, or a file couldn't be opened.

SEE ALSO

     mutt(1), wl-copy(1), xclip(1), xsel(1), curses(3), regex(7), url(7)