When you write a guide for some build, or even a beginner guide for a class, you may want to add some (or some more) item links into your guide. Searching the game guide for the URLs requires quite some time, imho.
For this, I have written a little tool for use with MS Windows.
The program crawls the official game guide once (select realm and language according to your needs), optionally it downloads also the item graphics.
Once this is completed, you can search for any item, like “Convention of Elements”, just by typing the name (or part of the url) into the search field. All matching items are listed while you type. The first item in the list is automatically copied into the clipboard, to be pasted into the forum editor. If you want, the markdown Syntax is used to create the links.
You can download it on GitHub:
https://github.com/DanielGausi/BattleNet-GameGuideTools/releases
Just unzip the archive and start the ItemLink.exe .
In addition, you may want to use the following userscript with Greasmonkey or Tampermonkey. This will enable the Tooltipp script in the forums, which shows some item information when you point on an item link with the mouse cursor.
http://dh-deluxe.de/files/downloads/D3-ToolTipps.user.js