Short script to take a string in the clipboard and replace it with something appropriate for a folder, file, or URL name.

urlify.py

# Make sure to pip install pyperclip and colorama.
# Because output is better with color!
import pyperclip
from colorama import Fore


def main():
    print(Fore.WHITE + "-----------------------------")
    print(Fore.WHITE + "          URLIFY             ")
    print(Fore.WHITE + "-----------------------------")
    print()
    print(Fore.LIGHTCYAN_EX + "Reading data from clipboard...", flush=True)
    try:
        text = pyperclip.paste()
        if not text or not text.strip():
            print(Fore.LIGHTRED_EX + "⚠️   ERROR: No data available in clipboard. 😢")
            return

        if len(text) > 300:
            print(Fore.LIGHTRED_EX + f"⚠️   ERROR: The text was really long, too long: {len(text):,}...")
            return

        url_text = to_url_style(text)
        print(Fore.WHITE + f"Original '{text}'")
        print(Fore.LIGHTYELLOW_EX + "Converted text to " + Fore.LIGHTGREEN_EX + f"'{url_text}' 🌟🌟🌟✨")
        pyperclip.copy(url_text)
        print(Fore.WHITE + "Copied to clipboard 📋")

    except Exception as x:
        print(f"⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️   Error: Unexpected crash: {x}.")


def to_url_style(text):
    if not text:
        return text

    text = text.strip()
    url_txt = ''
    for ch in text:
        url_txt += ch if ch.isalnum() or ch == '.' else ' '

    count = -1
    while count != len(url_txt):
        count = len(url_txt)
        url_txt = url_txt.strip()
        url_txt = url_txt.replace('  ', ' ')
        url_txt = url_txt.replace(' ', '-')
        url_txt = url_txt.replace('--', '-')

    return url_txt.lower().strip()
        
    
if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Do you have a link to
from talk_python_training.infrastructure.webutils import to_url_style ?

Or maybe in-line it of it’s a simple function?

Hi @Hultner, sorry about that. Didn't realize it had that dependency. I just "inlined" that function into the script (edited).

Best,
Michael