--- a/textshaper/url2txt.py	Mon May 12 10:29:06 2014 -0700
+++ b/textshaper/url2txt.py	Thu Jul 03 13:23:19 2014 -0700
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 xclip -o | sed 's/_//' | sed 's/.html//'
 """
 
+import argparse
 import sys
 
 def url2txt(url):
@@ -21,8 +22,16 @@
 
 def main(args=sys.argv[1:]):
     """CLI"""
-    for arg in args:
-        print url2txt(arg)
+
+    # parse command line
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__)
+    parser.add_option('urls', metavar='url', nargs='+',
+                      help="URLs to convert")
+    options = parser.parse_args(args)
+
+    # convert urls
+    for url in options.urls:
+        print (url2txt(url))
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':