This is a collection of my own extensions for the Mac app PopClip. It gives you a popup when you select text, a la iOS, and lets you perform various operations on/with it.
Many of my extensions are Markdown-related, but there are a few other goodies in there, too.
To install from the download package, just unzip and double-click the extensions you want to use. To install from the source code, just make sure the extension of a folder is .popclipext and double click it in Finder.
If an extension is already installed, double clicking the downloaded one will just update the existing extension. There’s no need to uninstall before moving on to the latest fun.
Current release version: 1.45.8 (source code) (source code)_
Many of these extensions have alternate behaviors when holding modifier keys. Recent versions of PopClip override these variations and provide specific actions when holding modifiers, such as Shift to copy result and Option to display the result in the bar. This means that the variations in the plugins no longer function. A better system may be available in the future, but for now, to restore the modifier key functionality, you need to disable the global interpretation of them. Open Terminal and run this command:
defaults write com.pilotmoon.popclip DisableAlternateActions -bool YES
The extensions currently included in the bundle. Some are available elsewhere as well, but this collection will always be the most up-to-date versions.
Turn indented text (or any text) into nested Markdown blockquotes.
When adding quote levels, multiple line breaks between lines creates separate block quotes (by design). If there’s a single blank line between to paragraphs, they’ll be joined together as paragraphs within a blockquote. More than one starts a new quote.
PopClip extension to show a popup preview for each URL in selected text. Used for confirming the output of scripts like SearchLink without switching to the browser.
Links are shown sequentially in the order they’re found.
Turn selected text into Markdown inline code or a code block. This extension “toggles,” so if the selection already contains code syntax (inline code or fenced code block) the syntax is removed.
Detects whether there are multiple lines:
When creating an inline code block, it will also detect whitespace at the beginning and end of the selection and make sure that it’s excluded from the surrounding backticks.
Turn selected text into an HTML or code comment.
Choose a style from the submenu:
<!-- block of text -->/* block of text */# before each line// before each linePopClip extension to append the selection to the current contents in the clipboard. This is a duplicate of an existing extension (Append) with just slightly better UTF-8 handling, and modifier key handling for copying with and without linebreaks and whitespace.
PopClip extension to copy just the URLs in the selection, one per line.
Duplicate of OpenURLS, but copies URLs to the clipboard instead of opening them in a browser.
Allows the quick insertion of CriticMarkup syntax via a submenu. Optionally fill in a signature to have a comment included after every insert, deletion or change with your initials or name.
There is a PopClip extension for CriticMarkup in the main download package, which I didn’t realize when I whipped this one up. I may defer to that one eventually, but I’ll wait until I figure out if mine adds anything worthwhile or not.
PopClip extension to search textingabbreviations.ca for the selected string.
Extension for adding HTML editor marks to text. Choose a style from the submenu:
<mark> (highlight)<ins datetime></ins> (insertion)<del datetime></del> (deletion)<!-- --> (comment)Insert and Delete include a datetime attribute when Include Datetime is enabled in the extension options.
Fixes emails obscured in a “support AT mydomain DOT com” fashion.
Hold Option to also open an email window for each matched address. This feature does not require edit capability in the current field.
Add or remove hard wrapping of paragraphs. Choose an action from the submenu:
Set the wrap width with the Column option in the extension settings.
PopClip extension to increment and repeat templated text.
Select and run on the following text:
This is a numeric increment ##0..2##.Which will generate:
This is a numeric increment 0.
This is a numeric increment 1.Specify a value to increment by with ##START..INCREMENT..END##, e.g. ##0..2..10## would insert 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10.
You can use placeholders with basic math modification. ##x## inserts the current element again. ##i## inserts the 0-based index in the iteration. So if the template is ##5..7##, on the second iteration x would hold 6 and i would hold 1.
Apply math functions to the placeholders using basic operator symbols (including % for mod). To insert the current value times 10, use ##x*10##. More complex equations are allowed, e.g. ##(i+2)*10##. Use % for modulus.
You can include leading zeroes on math operations to pad the result. If you want to just pad the number without modifying, you would use ##x*0001##, which would turn 5 into 0005 and 50 into 0050. Including a 0 padding on any element of the equation will result in padded output.
You can also use arrays of strings or numbers:
Hello ##mother,father,sister,brother##. And repeat with ##x##.Yields:
Hello mother. And repeat with mother.
Hello father. And repeat with father.
Hello sister. And repeat with sister.
Hello brother. And repeat with brother.The ##i## placeholder (zero-based index) with math operators is also available in string array replacements. If you want the index to also refer to strings, add #list,of,strings after the index or equation, e.g. ##i%2#odd,even## to insert odd and even alternately with each iteration.
Example:
.element-##one,two,three## {
text-indent: ##i*10##px;
}.element-one {
text-indent: 0px;
}
.element-two {
text-indent: 10px;
}
.element-three {
text-indent: 20px;
}PopClip extension to lengthen and clean URLs in the selection, then paste the result.
Uses the StretchLink.cc API for expansion and tracking cleanup.
tidy_amazon parameter to tidy all Amazon product links.Takes a selection of plain text containing markdown headlines, list items and paragraphs and converts it into a format ready for pasting into a mind mapping application (such as MindNode, MindManager or MindMeister) as separate nodes/topics.
List indentation is normalized to tabs. Nested lists that use 2-space or 4-space indents are detected automatically; lines that are already tab-indented are left as tabs.
Turn HTML text into Markdown using html2text.
PopClip extension to turn lines of text into Markdown lists. Choose an action from the submenu:
*, -, + by nesting level)Indentation is handled as nested lists. Existing markers are overwritten when converting between bullet and numbered styles.
nvUltra extension for PopClip. Add text as new note to frontmost notebook, or define a notebook in settings.
Originally created by Marc Abramowitz - see https://github.com/msabramo/nvALT.popclipext. Icon and minor modifications by Nick Moore.
PopClip extension to open all URLS in selection.
Outdents the selection while keeping relative nesting.
Make rich text go broke.
Strips rich text formatting from selection. There are probably multiple others that do this, but it’s so easy I just made it myself.
PopClip extension to turn lines of text into Markdown bullet items. Indentation is handled as nested lists and existing markers are overwritten (numbered list becomes bullet list).
Holding Option (⌥) while clicking the button for the extension in the PopClip bar will create/update a numbered list instead. When the list is already a numbered list, it will be re-numbered to fix any gaps or out-of-order numbering within nest levels.
Holding Command (⌘) while clicking will remove all list prefixes.
When you install this extension, you’ll get an options page where you can select the type of bullet you prefer for unordered lists. This can be accessed again later by clicking the pencil button at the bottom of the list, then clicking the gear button next to the BulletList extension.
Turn selected text into a URL-friendly post slug: lowercase, hyphens for spaces, and non-alphanumeric characters removed.
Also:
café → cafe). → -dot-, + → -plus-, & → -and-, @ → -at-Detect all numbers in selection and total them. Allows decimal places (using . or , as separator) and negative numbers. Result is copied to clipboard.
Use the options “Separator” and “Decimal Delimiter” to define characters used in your locale for separating thousands and decimal places, respectively.
Convert all @names and #tags to Markdown or HTML links pointing at x.com (profiles and hashtag search). You can set the default link type in the extension’s options (Markdown Links), and manually switch to the other type by holding down Option when running it.
Percent-encodes the selected text (encodeURIComponent).
Also available at Pilot Moon, same extension.
Also known as WebMD, this extension shows up when you select text on a web page. Clicking it will convert the selected headlines, text and links (including image links) to Markdown in your clipboard.
This extension uses Gather to markdownify the selection. If you don’t have the gather CLI installed, WebMarkdown will offer to download and install it for you the first time you run it.
Allows the definition of three custom “wrappers,” prefixes and suffixes that will surround selected text. They’re triggered, respectively, by clicking with the Option key, Command key or no modifier key held down.
Think of it as a custom version of the comments plugin. I find it quite handy for adding <mark>, <ins> and <del> tags to text when editing for others.
When installing the extension, the options will appear. They can be accessed again by going into edit mode in the plugins dropdown and clicking the gear icon next to “Wrappers.”
Download Brett's PopClip Extensions v1.45.8
A few PopClip extensions for Markdown writing and other useful tools
Published 11/30/14.
Updated 07/24/26. Changelog
The GitHub repository for all of my extensions is here.
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Added CopyURLs
Duplicate of OpenURLs, but copies a plain, newline-separated list to the clipboard
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