--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/python/url2txt.py	Thu Jul 04 16:01:38 2013 -0700
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+# xclip -o | sed 's/_//' | sed 's/.html//'
+
+def url2txt(url):
+    """gets the text equivalent of a URL"""
+    url = url.rstrip('/')
+    if '/' in url:
+        url = url.rsplit('/')[-1]
+    if '.' in url:
+        url = url.split('.', 1)[0]
+    url = url.replace('_', ' ')
+    return url
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    import sys
+    print url2txt(' '.join(sys.argv[1:]))