diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 32830c2..907e29a 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -49,7 +49,11 @@ install: st
 	mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(APPPREFIX)
 	cp -f st.desktop $(DESTDIR)$(APPPREFIX)
 	cp -f scripts/urllist $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin
+	cp -f scripts/st_buffer $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin
+	cp -f scripts/st_xurls $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin
 	chmod +x $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin/urllist
+	chmod +x $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin/st_buffer
+	chmod +x $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin/st_xurls
 	rm -f ./st
 	rm -f *.o
 
diff --git a/docs/patchlist b/docs/patchlist
index 2715abd..65c4f93 100644
--- a/docs/patchlist
+++ b/docs/patchlist
@@ -26,3 +26,4 @@ st-xrandrfontsize
 st-delkey
 st-extenralpipe
 st-externalpipe-eternal
+st-externalpipe-signal
diff --git a/external.h b/external.h
index 41a64fd..adbcb9e 100644
--- a/external.h
+++ b/external.h
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 /* This is the header used to control extenralpipe.
  */
+char *externalpipe_sigusr1[] = { "/bin/sh", "-c", "st_buffer st_strings_read" };
 static char *listurl[] = { "/bin/sh", "-c", "urllist", NULL };
diff --git a/scripts/st_buffer b/scripts/st_buffer
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..67eb13c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/st_buffer
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env sh
+# externalpipe_buffer.sh: use with surf/st externalpipe-signal patches
+#   Input Usage: echo st or surf content from externalpipe | ./externalpipe_buffer.sh {st,surf}_strings_read
+#   Menus Usage: ./externalpipe_buffer.sh dmenu_{copy, type}
+BUFFER_FILE=/tmp/content_buffer
+function st_strings_read() {
+  INPUT="$(cat)"
+  echo "$(
+    echo "$INPUT" | grep -Eo '\S+' | tr -d '[:blank:]'
+    echo "$INPUT" | grep -oP '"[^"]+"' | tr -d '"'
+    echo "$INPUT" | sed 's/^ *[0-9]\+.//g' | awk '{$1=$1};1'
+  )" | uniq | grep . | awk '{ print length, $0 }' | sort -n -s | cut -d" " -f2- \
+  >> $BUFFER_FILE &
+}
+function surf_strings_read() {
+  awk '{printf "%sNEWLINE_REPLACE", $0} END {printf "\n"}' |
+    xmllint --html --xpath "//*" - |
+    awk '{ gsub("<[^>]*>", ""); print($0); }' |
+    sed 's/NEWLINE_REPLACE/↵/g' |
+    awk '{ gsub("<[^>]*>",""); print $0 }' |
+    sed 's/&lt;/</g' |
+    sed 's/&gt;/>/g' |
+    uniq | grep . | awk '{ print length, $0 }' | sort -n -s | cut -d" " -f2- \
+    >> $BUFFER_FILE &
+}
+function trigger_sigusr1() {
+  USE_FIFO=F # Recomended as T but only if using dmenu-stdin patch w/ FIFO
+  rm -f $BUFFER_FILE
+  if [ $USE_FIFO == T ]; then mkfifo $BUFFER_FILE; else touch $BUFFER_FILE; fi
+  pkill -USR1 "surf" &
+  pkill -USR1 "^st$" &
+  if [ $USE_FIFO != T ]; then sleep 0.8; fi
+}
+function dmenu_copy() {
+  trigger_sigusr1
+  cat $BUFFER_FILE | dmenu -l 10 -i -w $(xdotool getactivewindow) -p 'Screen Copy' | sed 's/↵/\n/g' | xclip -i
+}
+function dmenu_type() {
+  trigger_sigusr1
+  cat $BUFFER_FILE | dmenu -l 10 -i -w $(xdotool getactivewindow) -p 'Screen Type' | sed 's/↵/\n/g' | xargs -IC xdotool type --delay 0 "C"
+}
+function pipe_combine() {
+  trigger_sigusr1
+  cat - $BUFFER_FILE
+}
+
+$1
diff --git a/scripts/st_xurls b/scripts/st_xurls
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bbc3ad1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/st_xurls
@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+use warnings;
+
+$hostchars = '[a-z0-9-._+]';
+$pathchars = '[a-z0-9-._+#=?&:;%/!,~]';
+
+sub scan($$$)
+{
+	my ($file, $lineno, $line) = @_;
+
+	chomp $line;
+
+	while($line =~ s!
+      ([a-z]+://)?
+
+# http://
+
+      $hostchars+\.[a-z]+
+
+# www.tim.google.com - the [a-z].com is the main anchor for the whole regex - incase http:// is omitted
+# note no trailing slash
+
+      ($pathchars+/\?)*
+
+# check for the index.php? part
+
+      ($pathchars+|\($pathchars+\))*
+
+# check for pathchars, or a set of nested parens
+				!!xoi){ # allow space + comments, compile once, strcasecmp
+
+		my($p,$m,$e) = ($`,$&,$');
+
+		$e = '.' . $e if $m =~ s/\.$//;
+
+		if($opt{fname} && $file){
+			print "$col{red}$file$col{none}:";
+		}
+
+		if($opt{lineno}){
+			print "$col{green}$lineno$col{none}: ";
+		}elsif($opt{fname} && $file){
+			print ' ';
+		}
+
+		if($opt{hl}){
+			print "$p$col{brown}$m$col{none}$e\n";
+		}else{
+			print "$m\n";
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+sub usage(){
+	$printme =<<"!";
+Usage: $0 -[Chn] [FILES...]
+ -h: highlight
+ -c: force colour on (for pipes)
+ -C: colour off (only makes sense with -h)
+ -n: show line number
+!
+	print STDERR $printme;
+	exit 1;
+}
+
+
+%opt = (
+	colour => 1,
+	lineno => 0,
+	fname  => 0,
+	hl     => 0
+);
+%col = (
+	brown => "\e[0;31m", # hl
+	red   => "\e[0;35m", # fname
+	green => "\e[0;32m", # lineno
+	none  => "\e[0;0m"
+);
+
+for $arg (@ARGV){
+	if($arg eq '-h'){
+		$opt{hl} = 1;
+	}elsif($arg eq '-n'){
+		$opt{lineno} = 1;
+	}elsif($arg eq '-C'){
+		$opt{colour} = 0;
+	}elsif($arg eq '-c'){
+		usage() if $opt{colour} == 0;
+		$opt{colour} = 2; # force on
+	}elsif($arg eq '--help'){
+		usage();
+	}else{
+		push @files, $arg;
+	}
+}
+
+usage() if $opt{hl} && !$opt{colour};
+
+$opt{fname} = 1 if $#files > 0 || $opt{lineno};
+if(!$opt{colour} || ($opt{colour} == 1 && !-t STDOUT)){
+	$col{$_} = '' for keys %col;
+}
+
+$| = 1;
+
+if(@files){
+	for my $f (@files){
+		my $n = 1;
+		open F, '<', $f or warn "$f: $!\n";
+		scan($f, $n++, $_) for <F>;
+		close F;
+	}
+}else{
+	scan(undef, $., $_) while <STDIN>;
+}
diff --git a/scripts/urllist b/scripts/urllist
index dc1951e..cd76dba 100644
--- a/scripts/urllist
+++ b/scripts/urllist
@@ -1 +1,16 @@
-# temporarily empty
+#!/bin/sh
+case "$RUNLAUNCHER" in
+"") RUNLAUNCHER=dmenu ;;
+esac
+
+command -v xdg-open > /dev/null && BROWSER="xdg-open"
+
+st_xurls | grep -q http || exit 0 # Don't prompt when there are no urls.
+
+URL=$(st_xurls | grep http | awk '!_[$1]++' | $RUNLAUNCHER -l 10 -w $WINDOWID -g 1 -p 'Open:')
+
+case "$1" in
+"") $BROWSER $URL ;;
+"-o") $BROWSER $URL ;;
+"-c") echo $URL | xclip -selection clipboard ;;
+esac
diff --git a/st.c b/st.c
index e473ecf..6b44e7e 100644
--- a/st.c
+++ b/st.c
@@ -189,6 +189,7 @@ typedef struct {
 static void execsh(char *, char **);
 static void stty(char **);
 static void sigchld(int);
+static void sigusr1(int);
 static void ttywriteraw(const char *, size_t);
 
 static void csidump(void);
@@ -832,6 +833,13 @@ execsh(char *cmd, char **args)
 	_exit(1);
 }
 
+void
+sigusr1(int unused)
+{
+  static Arg a = {.v = externalpipe_sigusr1};
+  externalpipe(&a);
+}
+
 void
 sigchld(int a)
 {
@@ -884,6 +892,12 @@ stty(char **args)
 int
 ttynew(const char *line, char *cmd, const char *out, char **args)
 {
+	static struct sigaction sa;
+	sa.sa_handler = sigusr1;
+	sigemptyset(&sa.sa_mask);
+	sa.sa_flags = SA_RESTART;
+	sigaction(SIGUSR1, &sa, NULL);
+
 	int m, s;
 
 	if (out) {
diff --git a/st.h b/st.h
index 488ace2..25243cb 100644
--- a/st.h
+++ b/st.h
@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ void drawboxes(int, int, int, int, XftColor *, XftColor *, const XftGlyphFontSpe
 #endif
 
 /* config.h globals */
+extern char *externalpipe_sigusr1[];
 extern char *utmp;
 extern char *scroll;
 extern char *stty_args;