Script to select links only in the panel

Well, always is the way...

I am not scripter but..... scripters can use this approach: 

Select your links in link's panel, then script will generate captions, and will group captions with links (Frame on page). Then script will search links name in this captions frame and delete whole group. So I bet, this is possible 🙂 

Convince me it's not possible 🙂

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As already mentioned script rarely has any capability like selecting objects to do anything on the native panels. So you will need to let us know what you want to do after selecting the items we could explore the possibility of acheiving that.

-Manan

Hi @eusoujpg , If by select you mean you want to select the items in the Link panel’s list (not select the linked assets on the pages), that can’t be done via scripting

What do you want to do with the link after you select it? Do you want to manipulate its parent frame, or something else? You can't select across multiple spreads, so just selecting, even as an ADD TO SELECTION would not work. To test the name of the indd doc against the link name, you could try the following: 

var doc = app.activeDocument;
var nm = new RegExp(doc.name.replace(/\.indd$/i,""),"i");
for (var d = doc.links.length-1; d >= 0; d--) {
     var link = doc.links[d];
     if (nm.test(link.name) { 
        //do something with link. link.parent would get its frame
     }
}