How do I copy the URL contained in the Internet shortcut?

Question

I saw an answer to this question in a post already but I am wanting to know if there is a way to do multiple files at one time versus clicking on each shortcut file individually to get the URL? I just need to get the URLs to the clipboard so I can paste in Excel and I have hundreds of these shortcuts.

Answer 1

Run this at the command prompt from the top level directory containing all your .URL files, and you should end up with URLs.txt as well as (on Windows 7 onwards) the URLs copied to the clipboard:

for /f "tokens=1* delims==" %a in ('findstr /s /l "URL=" *.url') do @echo %b>>URLs.txt && clip<URLs.txt

Answer 2

This should answer it: http://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/183436. Once you've completed the steps you'll end up with a text file containing your URLs. Example:

[{000214A0-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}]
Prop3=19,2
[InternetShortcut]
URL=http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=69172
IDList=
[{000214A0-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}]
Prop3=19,2
[InternetShortcut]
URL=http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=70742
IDList=
[{000214A0-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}]
Prop3=19,2
[InternetShortcut]
URL=http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=68925
IDList=
[{000214A0-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}]
Prop3=19,2
[InternetShortcut]
URL=http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=68927
IDList=

You can easily strip out the garbage you're not interested in with a find and replace operation. Then you're left with just the URLs and can copy and paste them into Excel.