I know firefox has the very useful “Copy clean Link” option in the context menu, but I would like a similar feature for copying links from any other software, like spotify for example. So I am looking for some software that hooks into the clipboard pipeline, and cleans any URL that gets added. I tried googling for something like it, but was completely unsuccessful. Does anyone have a clue how I might go about achieving this?

Thanks in advance :)

Edit: I found out about klipper’s actions, which provide the option to run a command when a string that matches a regex is added to the clipboard buffer. I am not sure how to properly use this though, so any help is appreciated!

    • Flagstaff@programming.devEnglish
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      2 months ago

      It rarely ever does anything in my experience.

      Anyway, I built a URL-cleaning script in AutoHotkey, but that’s Windows-only; I, too, am on the hunt for a Linux equivalent. Maybe this could be done in SikuliX or Espanso, via a Python script, but I suck at Python so far.

      • jokro@feddit.org
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        2 months ago

        Alternatively you can configure a hotkey in the GNOME Settings, or the equivalent for other DEs, to execute a bash script or anything.

  • enkers@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    That’d be cool. Whenever I’m sharing a YT link, I’m always a bit suspicious of what info the youtu.be URL is hiding, so I paste it into a browser to get a clean URL.

    Maybe this is silly, but I’d be cool to do that automatically.

    • ivn@jlai.luEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Well for youtube it’s quite easy, there are only 4 useful parameters that I can think of, the video id v, the playlist id list and index if it’s a playlist and the time t if you’re sending a specific time in the video. Everything else can be removed. Here’s what uBlock Origin with the AdGuard URL Tracking filter list:

      ! Youtube
$removeparam=embeds_referring_euri,domain=youtubekids.com|youtube-nocookie.com|youtube.com
$removeparam=embeds_referring_origin,domain=youtubekids.com|youtube-nocookie.com|youtube.com
$removeparam=source_ve_path,domain=youtubekids.com|youtube-nocookie.com|youtube.com
||youtube.com^$removeparam=pp