How to get a plain text instead of csv output for backlink analyzer?

[googlealchemist]

The link analyzer looks really great, I'm using it now to do some reverse engineering and it is seemingly able to give me far more than just the 1k limit we can get from yahoo site. But it spits out the results to a csv file which just has everything bunched up into a bunch of gibberish.

Is there a way to get a plain text file so its readable/usable? Or how to convert or view the csv file properly?

Thanks

[danrawk]

hey justin -

try importing it into microsoft excel or google docs spreadsheet, that should make it quite a bit more readable. if that doesn't work you may be able to export it from one of those 2 programs in a more readable format. :>)
thanks

dan

[googlealchemist]

Thanks,yes I am able to view them in a better format now that I'm not trying to load them into a plain notepad file. My related question now is, how are we supposed to get a plain list of all these urls in a practical manner? I mean it's great to have all the pr, anchor text, etc etc etc all listed next to each one, but frankly I just want a plain list of JUST the urls for me to be able to actually use. I've tried a link extractor and didnt work and no way I'm copy pasting thousands of urls

Ideas? How do you gets get a practical working list without all the extras?

[KeriMorgret]

What about removing the unneeded columns while you have it in the spreadsheet, then save as html? You can then open that up in the browser and everything is hyperlinked. Or dump it into Word then save that as html.

This will be about the only time in my life I ever recommend using Word to save as html, but it should do for your purposes here.

[googlealchemist]

Thanks I will give that a try.But it seems silly it is designed like this, very user unfriendly to have to jump thru so many hoops to get a plain list of the target urls that I want.