Get Chrome to open pages from a list in .txt

[Firecore 155]

Hi guys. I was just curious, is it possible for you to save a bunch of url's in a text file and then get Chrome to somehow read that file, and open the pages based on the links in a new tab per link?

[benryves 1999]

If you're using Windows, you can easily achieve this using WSH. Save the following into a file somewhere with a .js extension then drag and drop the text file onto it.

if (WScript.Arguments.length != 1) {
	WScript.Echo('No file specified.');
	WScript.Quit(1);
}

var wsh = WScript.CreateObject('WScript.Shell');
var fso = WScript.CreateObject('Scripting.FileSystemObject');

var file = fso.OpenTextFile(WScript.Arguments(0));
while(!file.AtEndOfStream) {
	var url = file.ReadLine();
	if (url) wsh.Run(url);
}
file.Close();

It'll open the links in whatever your default browser is.

[Firecore 155]

Cool. Didn't even know this WSH existed!!
Will find out more about it.

[dwarfsoft 1229]

Alternatively, most browsers allow you to pass more than one url on the command line.

You could do this the same way benryves suggested except by creating a single line like:

chrome "url1" "url2" "url3"

or you could use batch to do exactly what benryves suggsted too:

FOR /F "tokens=*" %%A IN ('myurls.txt') DO (
  START Chrome %%A
  )