Takes a URL and grabs the <title></title> contents to provide a Markdown Link using the title of the page. Used as a TextExpander Shortcut to paste links into Markdown Files with the page title as the link text.

textexpander.sh

#! /bin/bash

# Python Script to pull down title of web page and enter it into a markdown snippet. 

~/bin/url2mdlink.py %clipboard

url2mdlink.py

#!/usr/local/bin/python3

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import lxml
import requests
import sys

url = sys.argv[1]

soup = BeautifulSoup(requests.get(url).text, 'lxml')
title = soup.title.string

print('[{title}]({url})'.format(title=title, url=url))