Fill Markdown Links (Reference Links)

Action

Posted by kjaymiller, Last update over 6 years ago

Ever been writing and had to stop to look up a link.

with this action you can leave those links empty like this “your link text”.

Once you run this action it will look for all of the empty links and then ask you to fill them.

You can manually enter a url (or whatever text you like, who am I to judge), paste from the clipboard if you’ve been doing some research, or you can open google to search for your link text. When you go back to your draft you can paste in the text.

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script

// See online documentation for examples
// http://getdrafts.com/scripting
var url = ''
re = /!*\[(.*?)\]\(\)/g;

function addToDraft(draftMatch, content){
    i = draft.content.indexOf(draftMatch) + draftMatch.length - 2; 
    return editor.setTextInRange(i, 2, content);
}

function addLinkReference(url, description) {
draft.content += "\n" + '[' + index.toString() + ']: ' + 
    url + ' ' + description;
    return draft.update();
 }


var index = 1;

//create menu and base buttons
menu = Prompt.create();
menu.addButton('Add from Clipboard', 'clipboard')
menu.addButton('OK', 'ok')
 menu.addTextField('url','URL: ','', {'keyboard':'URL'});
menu.addTextField('description','Description: ','',);
menu.addButton('Open Safari','safari')
  
    while ((match = re.exec(draft.content)) != null){
    menu.message = match[1];
    if (match[0].substring(0,1) == '!') {menu.title = 'Image'}
    else {menu.title = 'Link'};      
m = menu.show();
if ( m==false ) quit;
url = menu.fieldValues['url'];
    description = '"' + menu.fieldValues['description'] + '"';

switch (menu.buttonPressed) {

case 'ok':
   addToDraft(match[0], '['+ index + ']')

   addLinkReference(url, description)
   
  menu.addButton(description, index); 
    index++;
    break;
    
  case 'clipboard':
  addToDraft(match[0], '['+ index + ']');
  addLinkReference(app.getClipboard(), description);
  menu.addButton(description, index); 
    index++;
    break;

case 'safari':
    linkTitle = draft.processTemplate('{{' + match[1] +'}}'); 
       app.openURL('https://www.google.com/search?q='+linkTitle);   
var secondMenu = Prompt.create();
secondMenu.message = 'The contents of your clipboard will be copied to "' + match[1] + '"';

secondMenu.addButton('OK','ok'); //adds the corrent item

m2 = secondMenu.show();

if (m2) {
addToDraft(match[0], '['+ index + ']');
  addLinkReference(app.getClipboard(), description);
  menu.addButton(description, index); 
    index++;
};
   break;
   
   default:
   addToDraft(match[0], '['+ menu.buttonPressed + ']');
    }
}

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