Add URLS to Website Printouts

If you print a website you notice that the urls of the links contained on the website are not added to the printout, only the link anchor text is included obviously. It sometimes makes a lot of sense to print the urls as well and a Greasemonkey script named Annotate Links can do that for you.

All you need is a Greasemonkey compatible browser like Firefox, the Greasemonkey extension and the Annotate Links script that adds the functionality. The annotated links are not visible when browsing websites but will become visible once you print the website. Each link gets a unique identifier (number) which corresponds to a link in the link list at the end of the printout.

Only “real” links are added this way to the document. Javascript links or relative links are not included which makes a lot of sense obviously. You can preview the output if you select Print Preview from the menu of your browser, the way the links are prepared and added should be visible there if the Greasemonkey extension is running.