URL to Markdown Link

script

function promptForTitle() {
	let prompt = Prompt.create();
	prompt.title = "URL to Markdown Link";
	prompt.message = "Please add a title, we couldn't fetch the link's title from the internet";
	prompt.addTextField("title", "Title", "");
	prompt.addButton("Create link");
	
	let didSelect = prompt.show();
	
	let title = prompt.fieldValues["title"];
	
	if (prompt.buttonPressed == "Create link") {
		createMarkdownLink(title, url)
	}

};

function promptForURL() {
	let prompt = Prompt.create();
	prompt.title = "URL to Markdown Link";
	prompt.message = "Please provide a URL, so that we can try fetching the title from the internet";
	prompt.addTextField("url", "URL", "");
	prompt.addButton("Next");
	
	let didSelect = prompt.show();
	
 	return prompt.fieldValues["url"];
};


function createMarkdownLink(title, url) {
		markdown_link = `[${title}](${url})`
  		editor.setSelectedText(markdown_link)
};


let url = editor.getSelectedText() // Get selected URL

if (url == "") {
	url = promptForURL();
}

var http = HTTP.create(); // create HTTP object

var response = http.request({
									"url": url,
									"method": "GET",
									}); // GET the HTML of the page

if (response.success) {
	var text = response.responseText;
	
	// Grab the Title of the page
	let re = new RegExp('<title>(.*?)<\/title>');

	var title = re.exec(text);
	editor.setSelectedText(title)
	if (title) {
		title = title[1];
  		title = HTML.unescape(title);
		
		createMarkdownLink(title, url);
	}
	else {
		promptForTitle()
	};
}
else if (response.error) {
	promptForTitle();
};