URL Cleaner?

Questions & Suggestions
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URLs often come with cruft after the ? character. Is there an elegant, simple, fast way to invoke a URL cleaner from KM?

I found one such macro on the forum from about 3-4 yrs ago and it won't open /Automatically Remove URL Cruft.kmmacros - looking at the code it doesn't look all that sophisticated.

Are there modern cleaners?

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Your middle sentence is not easy to make sense of :slight_smile:

You are naming a macro or describing a difficulty in using it ?

I found one such macro on the forum from about 3-4 yrs ago

Can you give us a link to it ?

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Popclip can do that:

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Thanks, I just discovered: GitHub - rknightuk/TrackerZapper: Menubar app to remove link tracking parameters automatically which is I think what I really needed in the first place.

Let's see if yet another "app" running in 16GB M1 Mac causes thrashing.

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Hey Mark,

When posting questions like this it's especially important to let us know what web browser you're using – that greatly affects the possible solutions.

@griffman built a system quite recently

An Automatic URL Decrufter for Defined Hosts

You may also want to look at this critter:

‎StopTheMadness on the Mac App Store

Peter recommended it to me.

I haven't tried it out, because I thought it was for Safari only – but it supports Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Brave Browser.

$10.00 on the App-Store, but that's pretty cheap for all the goodies it has.

-Chris

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@weberwa Popclip keeps on showing up on my radar, I will eventually have a look. FWIW the cleaner has a fairly simple filter. The one that got me started down this path TrackerZapper - has a more elegant list: TrackerZapper/AppDelegate.swift at 1.2.1 · rknightuk/TrackerZapper · GitHub

@ccstone I'm using both Safari and Chrome, I will try to remember to mention in the future. I can't immediately see how that makes a difference. My intention was to turn a URL cleaner into a function that I could call from other macros. I would feed it a URL and it would come back cleaner. The Decruffter from @griffman seems to have much of what I want. Danke.

- Mark

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Different osascript interfaces, inter alia

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