Shorten Home Depot URL

[ryanburnett]

Is there a way to take a Home Depot URL like this:

https://www.homedepot.com/p/1-2-in-x-5-ft-Conduit-Electrical-Metallic-Tubing-Steel-0550005000/202068069

...and remove everything between "p/" and the final "/" to return this:

https://www.homedepot.com/p/202068069

[griffman]

This should work:

The find line: ^(.*?\/p).*\/?(\/.*)$
The replace line: $1$2

The example assumes you have the URL in a variable, but you could easily change it to work off clipboard, etc.

-rob.

[ryanburnett]

@griffman

$1$2

That works perfectly - thank you!

[ComplexPoint]

and another approach is to refer to the parts of the URL which we want to drop or keep by their numeric index.

( splitting on "/" )

Parts of URL dropped by numeric index.kmmacros (3.5 KB)

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For a subroutine to generalise variable array slices, see:

Slice(s) of a Variable Array

Keyboard Maestro lets us get at parts of a string by their index number, where the parts are split on a custom delimiter: ( See the section on custom delimiters in manual:Variable Arrays [Keyboard Maestro Wiki] ) Here is a subroutine which lets us get at a continuous range (or 'slice') of zero-indexed parts of a string. Variable Array SLICES Macros.kmmacros (5.7 KB) For example: If in the following long URL (see: Shorten Home Depot URL): https://www.homedepot.com/p/1-2-in-x-5-ft-Conduit-El…

[ryanburnett]

Awesome - thanks ComplexPoint!