tool to add http:// to all my links

[DigitalPeon]

I sometimes have a list of hundreds to thousands of domains that are named as
eg. abc.xyz.com instead of http://abc.xyz.com

instead of inserting http:// 1 by 1, is there any tool to auto add http:// infront of all my domain urls? :confused:

Thanks.

[livingearth]

Have you tried notepads find and replace function

[DigitalPeon]

search and replace won't work coz all the domains first words are different.

if the url start with www. i can easily replace all of them with http://www.

but i have all kinda of subs such as david.somesite.com, crazymonkey.somesite.com etc...

[Carlito]

You might try copying them into Excel, and then create another column with a formula like:
=CONCATENATE ("http://", A2)
to produce that result.

Or if the links are embedded in HTML you could use a regular expression tool like this one (http://www.radsoftware.com.au/regexdesigner/) to do a more complex replacement of whatever you want.

[john269]

Excel works great for this.

[EGoldstein]

Yes I use Excel too but in a different manner. Fill http:// in column A until whatever level. Then fill your domains in the column B. Select column A and column B, then copy. Paste it in notepad. Find and replace all the spaces between http:// and domain using the "find and replace" option. Replace the macro space with nothing. That's it.

My first post here by the way.

Emmanuel Goldstein.

[DigitalPeon]

Thanks Guys! Excel works wonders! :D

[john269]

I never thought of doing that and I always try and find the quickest way of doing things as time cost money.

I normally join the both columns together using something like =b3&""&c3

Yes I use Excel too but in a different manner. Fill http:// in column A until whatever level. Then fill your domains in the column B. Select column A and column B, then copy. Paste it in notepad. Find and replace all the spaces between http:// and domain using the "find and replace" option. Replace the macro space with nothing. That's it.

My first post here by the way.

Emmanuel Goldstein.

[adamovic]

Use editor (like UltraEdit or gEdit on Linux) and replace "\n" with "\nhttp://" or something like that (href=" with href="http://).