My previous post explained how to use the Internet Options dialog to copy the web addresses of current tabs in Internet Explorer. Wouldn’t it be nice if there is a way to capture the page title in addition? This can be especially useful if you have some unfriendly URLs (e.g. URLs not based on page title), such as:

http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/?p=300

By looking at the URL, nobody would even have the slightest notion of what that link is about. In that case, capturing the page title along can be of utmost help. Well! There is a way to do that in Internet Explorer 7 and higher. This article might make it look complicated but believe me, it takes just 4 mouse clicks to get the title and URL of your open tabs.

We will make use of the "Add Current Tabs to Favorites" feature in Internet Explorer, plus a script I wrote which grabs the Title and URL of internet shortcuts from a predefined folder. Assuming you have the tabs currently open, use these steps to get the title and URL of those tabs.

1. Click the Favorites menu, and click Add current tabs to favorites…

Note: If you’re still using Internet Explorer 7, click Favorites and select Add Tab Group to Favorites. (Thanks to MVP Robear Dyer for the note.)

2. Type Temp as the folder name, and press {ENTER}

The shortcuts are added to the Temp folder under the Favorites shell folder of your user profile.

Note: This assumes you don’t plan to use the folder for permanent storage of shortcuts. In other words, reserve the folder "Temp" exclusively for this purpose, because the script (referenced below) queries the title and URL each shortcut in the Favorites\Temp directory, and then empties the folder every time it’s run.

3. Next, download the script ie_title_url.vbs. Save it to a permanent location and run it. It should launch a text document, containing the title and URL of each tab page.

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