# file:// urls don't display as links

**URL:** <https://support.prodi.gy/t/file-urls-dont-display-as-links/507>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Tags:** enhancement, front-end\
**Created:** [April 24, 2018, 12:09am UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/file-urls-dont-display-as-links/507 "2018-04-24T00:09:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![peterwilliams97](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/support.prodi.gy/peterwilliams97/32/271_2.png) [@peterwilliams97](https://support.prodi.gy/u/peterwilliams97)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 12:09am UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/file-urls-dont-display-as-links/507/1 "2018-04-24T00:09:08Z")

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I am using Prodigy to label pages in PDF files in a directory on my computer with a view to building a page classifier based on the text on each page

The text on pages is presented to `prodigy textcat.teach` like this:  
`{"text": "x", "meta": { "url": "file:///Users/peter/testdata/121207-Robert_Mort-with-cover.pdf#page=12"}}`

I would like to click on `file:///Users/peter/testdata/121207-Robert_Mort-with-cover.pdf#page=12` to

- look for the location of text on page,
- check that my text extractor is working, and
- look for non-text objects on the page.  
But there is no link

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**Author:** ![peterwilliams97](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/support.prodi.gy/peterwilliams97/32/271_2.png) [@peterwilliams97](https://support.prodi.gy/u/peterwilliams97)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 4:12am UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/file-urls-dont-display-as-links/507/2 "2018-04-24T04:12:47Z")

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I am running a local web server as a workaround so this is not urgent.

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**Author:** ![ines](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/support.prodi.gy/ines/32/3_2.png) [@ines](https://support.prodi.gy/u/ines)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 8:04am UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/file-urls-dont-display-as-links/507/3 "2018-04-24T08:04:27Z")

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Thanks for the report – you’re right, the logic Prodigy uses to auto-link URLs in the meta currently doesn’t check for `file:///`. I didn’t really consider this use case before, but shouldn’t be a problem to implement! 👍