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Source code for Mac OS X service described here: http://daringfireball.net/2010/08/open_urls_in_safari_tabs
#!/usr/bin/perl
# Description: http://daringfireball.net/2010/08/open_urls_in_safari_tabs
# License: See below.
# http://gist.github.com/507356
use strict;
use warnings;
use URI::Escape;
my $text = do { local $/; <> };
my @urls;
my $url_regex = qr{(?xi)
\b
( # Capture 1: entire matched URL
(?:
[a-z][\w-]+: # URL protocol and colon
(?:
/{1,3} # 1-3 slashes
| # or
[a-z0-9%] # Single letter or digit or '%'
# (Trying not to match e.g. "URI::Escape")
)
| # or
www\d{0,3}[.] # "www.", "www1.", "www2." … "www999."
| # or
[a-z0-9.\-]+[.][a-z]{2,4}/ # looks like domain name followed by a slash
)
(?: # One or more:
[^\s()<>]+ # Run of non-space, non-()<>
| # or
\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\) # balanced parens, up to 2 levels
)+
(?: # End with:
\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\) # balanced parens, up to 2 levels
| # or
[^\s`!()\[\]{};:'".,<>?«»“”‘’] # not a space or one of these punct chars
)
)
};
# Build an AppleScript-syntax list of the URLs in the input text.
while ($text =~ m{$url_regex}g) {
my $u = $1;
$u =~ s{([\x{80}-\x{ffff}])}{uri_escape($1)}eg; # Encode non-ASCII characters
push @urls, qq{"$u"};
}
my $urls_as_applescript_list = join ", ", @urls;
# Get the user's default web browser; if it isn't Safari or WebKit, use Safari
# in the AppleScript. (And also use Safari if the backticks command fails.)
my $browser = `export VERSIONER_PERL_PREFER_32_BIT=yes; /usr/bin/perl -MMac::InternetConfig -le 'print +(GetICHelper "http")[1]'`;
chomp $browser;
unless ($browser =~ /^(?:Safari|WebKit)$/i) {
$browser = "Safari";
}
# Create and run the AppleScript.
my $applescript = <<"END_SCRIPT";
set _url_list to {$urls_as_applescript_list}
tell application "$browser"
-- activate # Uncomment to have browser activate when invoked
make new document
set _w to window 1
repeat with _url in _url_list
tell _w to make new tab with properties {URL:_url}
end repeat
tell _w to close tab 1 -- the empty tab the window started with
end tell
END_SCRIPT
print $applescript;
system("/usr/bin/osascript", "-e", $applescript);
__END__
LICENSE
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
Copyright (c) 2011 John Gruber
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
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Romanzo commented Jan 8, 2016

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How can this be modified to open all links in private tabs?

@ary15
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ary15 commented Nov 12, 2024

This no longer worked for me. Safari fails to open any url that doesn't begin with https://

A simple fix, add this code between lines 45 & 46:

if ($u !~ m{^https?://}) {
$u = "https://$u";
}

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