A few weeks ago we offered up Surly, a pair of Applescripts to grab the URL from your default browser’s frontmost tab or window and place a shortened version on the clipboard. There’s just one little thing we’ve been meaning to finish up since…

Meet Furly, Surly’s efficacious counterpart. Furly does what its name might suggest — it grabs the full URL from your default browser’s frontmost tab or window and drops the result in your clipboard, ready for pasting. Like Surly, the script currently supports Safari, Firefox, Camino, and Opera, and is designed to work in concert with Quicksilver, but could theoretically be employed by number of similar applications or methods.

View the source: Copy Frontmost Browser URL.applescript (4 KB)

Or, grab it to go:

Installation

1. Download the Furly script.
2. Move the script you want to somewhere out of the way but where Quicksilver can find it. We recommend putting it in ~/Library/Scripts, which Quicksilver will index automatically if you’ve enabled the “Scripts (User)” catalog item in the “Catalog” section of your Quicksilver preferences.
3. After a re-scan of the Quicksilver catalog (which you can force by activating QS and running ⌘+R, the appropriate scripts should be available.
4. Activate Quicksilver and call up your script. Typing the first few letters of Furly or Copy Frontmost Browser URL should find Furly - Copy Frontmost Browser URL.scpt (if Quicksilver has figured out where you’ve stored it). Just hit Enter, and after a few seconds your full URL will be in the clipboard.
5. Paste away!

Questions, Comments

I will modify the script to work with other browsers upon request by email. Also, don’t hesitate to send bug reports — you might get a Sakuzaku pin badge for your trouble.

Acknowledgements

Inspiration for this script, as with Surly, is owed to Dr. Drang, to whom I extend many thanks. (His much-updated and detailed post on the short- and long-URL craze is a must-read.)

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