<![CDATA[How to automatically run actions on an URL]]>Hi all. I read Reddit a lot and posts often have links to various news websites with a paywall. You can often circumvent these paywalls by pasting the URL into archive.ph. Is there a way to:

  1. set up a shortcut, macro, or context action that will
  2. take the URL in the URL bar, copy it to clipboard
  3. amend the URL in the URL bar to archive.ph
  4. paste the URL in the search box
  5. press the 'save' button.
]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/84261/how-to-automatically-run-actions-on-an-urlRSS for NodeWed, 16 Sep 2026 11:04:36 GMTThu, 17 Apr 2025 14:50:13 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to How to automatically run actions on an URL on Wed, 23 Apr 2025 10:07:35 GMT]]>@sgunhouse Thanks, I've got that working. It's not quite a slick as I was hoping but it's certainly a lot better than copying and pasting URLs. Thanks for your help! 🙂

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/383138https://forums.opera.com/post/383138Wed, 23 Apr 2025 10:07:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to automatically run actions on an URL on Tue, 22 Apr 2025 22:42:26 GMT]]>@fluffybunnyflipflops Unfortunately Opera doesn't let you customize menus. Someone who knows javascript might be able to write it as a bookmarklet. Alternatively (and probably the easiest), add it as a search engine and use that. That is, if the URL is already in your address bar, type your search shortcut (I assigned it as "s", so I just type s and a space before the URL) and press Enter. If the text of the URL is on the page somewhere, select it and use Search with > and select "archive.ph". Otherwise, copy the URL then in the address bar type your search shortcut and then paste the URL.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/383101https://forums.opera.com/post/383101Tue, 22 Apr 2025 22:42:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to automatically run actions on an URL on Mon, 21 Apr 2025 17:23:27 GMT]]>@sgunhouse How can I turn this into an automated action? Ideally, I'd like to right-click on a URL and select 'Archive.ph' (or something similar) and the paywalled URL opens in a new tab using the archive.ph URL above.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/382996https://forums.opera.com/post/382996Mon, 21 Apr 2025 17:23:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to automatically run actions on an URL on Sun, 20 Apr 2025 11:15:40 GMT]]>@sgunhouse Yeah, that works. I took your URL and replace %s with a paywalled Telegraph URL

https://archive.ph/submit/?submitid=VbBHa8poOdCfAmPgUR%2BLyD9d4He7yw6EowYGGLIth7v0w%2BAle436FKEcy7Thpds4&url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2025/04/20/king-queen-church-service-easter-sunday/

It redirected to https://archive.ph/nHe56.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/382925https://forums.opera.com/post/382925Sun, 20 Apr 2025 11:15:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to automatically run actions on an URL on Fri, 18 Apr 2025 07:16:57 GMT]]>@sgunhouse Okay, that may be a valid search URL then (that doesn't actually search).

Second test was https://archive.ph/Z4EKw (you can see the page from there)..

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/382761https://forums.opera.com/post/382761Fri, 18 Apr 2025 07:16:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to automatically run actions on an URL on Fri, 18 Apr 2025 06:48:49 GMT]]>@sgunhouse Well, archived this page as it existed at the time. See https://archive.ph/ooH5M. Now I need to think of a second page to archive to see if the same URL works twice. I'll have to think for a minute ...

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/382756https://forums.opera.com/post/382756Fri, 18 Apr 2025 06:48:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to automatically run actions on an URL on Fri, 18 Apr 2025 06:37:15 GMT]]>Hmm ... maybe not. The search URL has a "submitid" in it which may need to vary. The URL I got was

https://archive.ph/submit/?submitid=VbBHa8poOdCfAmPgUR%2BLyD9d4He7yw6EowYGGLIth7v0w%2BAle436FKEcy7Thpds4&url=%s

(In case it got wrapped, that's all one line.)

Well, one way to find out - try it.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/382755https://forums.opera.com/post/382755Fri, 18 Apr 2025 06:37:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to automatically run actions on an URL on Thu, 17 Apr 2025 22:05:13 GMT]]>@fluffybunnyflipflops Should be easier than that. Opera thinks the Save button belongs to a Search field, meaning you could add it as a search engine. Hence you should be able to write a scriptlet (short javaxcript code) to do all that. Without using the clipboard. Though i can't look at the code while on my tablet, so I can't do that until I get home.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/382745https://forums.opera.com/post/382745Thu, 17 Apr 2025 22:05:13 GMT