About the Multiple URL Opener
Lists of links arrive in awkward shapes: a column pasted out of a spreadsheet, a comma separated run from a report, or a block of text where only some lines are addresses. This page reads all of those, keeps the parts that parse as web addresses, quietly puts https:// in front of bare host names such as example.com/pricing, and shows you the cleaned list before anything opens.
Repeats are merged by default, which matters when the same address appears twice in a spreadsheet export and you would otherwise end up with duplicate tabs. The tab limit exists because browsers slow to a crawl somewhere past a few dozen pages, so the default stops at twenty and tells you how many were left out. Anything that could not be read as an address is listed underneath, so you can see whether a line was dropped because of a stray quotation mark.
Opening happens only when you press the button, and only from that click, because browsers refuse to open windows outside a real user action. The first press usually triggers the pop-up warning; allow pop-ups for this site once and later batches open silently. Nothing is stored and no address is sent anywhere. If your list is buried in a page of HTML, run it through the link extractor first, and use URL parser when you need to inspect one address in detail.
How to use
- Paste your addresses, one per line or separated by commas.
- Check the numbered list and the note about anything that was skipped.
- Set Max tabs to a number your machine can cope with.
- Press Open all and allow pop-ups for this site if the browser asks.
Common questions
- Why did only the first tab open?
- The browser blocked the rest as pop-ups. Allow pop-ups for this site in the address bar, then press the button again and the whole batch will open.
- Do I have to type https:// in front of every line?
- No. A bare host such as example.com/page is completed for you using the scheme chosen in the toolbar.
- How many links can I open at once?
- The limit is yours to set, up to one hundred, but past thirty or so most browsers become sluggish and some sites will throttle the requests.
- Are the links saved anywhere?
- No. The list lives in the page while the tab is open and disappears the moment you close or reload it.