AddrView utility extracts all URLs from Web pages

AddrView parses an HTML page and extracts all the available URLs found in it, such as links to other pages, images, CSS files, frames, Flash documents and just about anything else that can be linked from a Web page.

Provide a URL to a page or the name of a saved HTML file, and you'll see a gridded list of all the links and references in the document, broken down by address, caption and link type. The results can be saved to a report in plain text, delimited text, XML or HTML formats. The program requires that Internet Explorer 4.01 or higher be present and seems to work transparently with IE 7.

Many possible applications exist for this tool. One of the most obvious is to see if a given page is rendering links correctly, especially if they're hidden links such as a style sheet or a script that might take some digging through the file's source code to uncover.

AddrView has a few limitations. For one, if you're trying to access a page that requires a cookie to display certain kinds of information, it won't work. In addition, the program can't infer URLs from JavaScript or VBScript code in a page (this actually is a lot more complicated than it sounds). And if you're exploring a locally saved document, the URLs will be relative and not absolute unless there's a base URL specified in the document.

About the author: Serdar Yegulalp is editor of the Windows Insight, (formerly the Windows Power Users Newsletter), a blog site devoted to hints, tips, tricks and news for users and administrators of Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Vista. He has more than 12 years of Windows experience under his belt, and contributes regularly to SearchWinComputing.com and SearchSQLServer.com.

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