Description: This script will make a link in the clipboard from a URL in the clipboard
Requirement: Mac OS 10.x
Open in the Script Editor

-- Script Start
(*
  Simple script to create a link tag from a url in the clipboard 
  2004-06-30 by Fredrik Jonsson <mailto(colon)fredrik(at)combonet(dot)se>
  home page <http://xdeb.org/wiki/AppleScript>
*)
 
try
  tell me
    set this_url to the clipboard
    set url_tag to "<a href=\"" & this_url & "\">" & "LinkText</a>"
    set the clipboard to the url_tag
  end tell
end try
-- Script Stop