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https://github.com/dividedby/general-url-cleaner-revived

Userscript to clean various URLs and remove tracking elements
https://github.com/dividedby/general-url-cleaner-revived

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Userscript to clean various URLs and remove tracking elements

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General URL Cleaner Revived


Cleans various URL's and/or page links on Google, Youtube, Newegg, Amazon, Ebay, Facebook, Twitter, IMDB, StaticICE, Pocket, Target



It will clean these URLs regardless of what top level domain (.com, .ca, .fr, etc) or subdomain (unless excluded, various Google sites break easily like Docs, Hangouts, Takeout, etc)



Feel free to report issues or make pull requests for fixes, enhancements, etc: https://github.com/dividedby/General-URL-Cleaner-Revived



https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/432387-general-url-cleaner-revived



Recent fixes


[Add] Properly support all Amazon TLDs: https://github.com/dividedby/General-URL-Cleaner-Revived/issues/12

[Add] Strip "sclient" parameter from Google search results: https://github.com/dividedby/General-URL-Cleaner-Revived/issues/4


[Fix] Resolve issue with "undefined" being added to end of cleaned URLs: https://github.com/dividedby/General-URL-Cleaner-Revived/issues/5


[Fix] Updated regex of site matching to better catch sites and any top level domain (.com, .co.uk. .fr, etc): https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/432387-general-url-cleaner-revived/discussions/143277


[Add] Add additional Bing parameters to be cleaned: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/432387-general-url-cleaner-revived/discussions/143277


[Add] New parameters for most supported sites, script runs at document-end to better catch any changes made to URLs that can be cleaned, updates to the core script to formatting and correct JS conventions



Google


Cleans Google search URL's


A normal google search URL might look like this: https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=google&oq=google&gs_l=serp.3..0l10.7976.8565.0.9999.6.6.0.0.0.0.358.617.2-1j1.2.0....0...1c.1.64.serp..4.2.615.BQ3ZvdzuPGE


A cleaned google search url: https://www.google.com/search?q=google


Removes redirection of Google results links


Works with international Google sites (not just .com)



Bing


Cleans Bing search URL's


A normal google search URL might look like this: https://www.bing.com/search?q=google&qs=n&form=QBLH&pq=google&sc=9-2&sp=-1&sk=&cvid=97312C9A5750490FB6C424E46C6759EF


A cleaned bing search url: https://www.bing.com/search?q=google



Youtube


Cleaned url always looks like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=[video-id]


Removes redirection of description links



Amazon


Cleaned url always looks like this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/[item-id]/ Or this: http://www.amazon.com/dp/[item-id]/


Works with international sites (not just .com)



Facebook


Typical Facebook link looks like this: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=3121744148088497&set=pcb.3121748278088084


Cleaned URL looks like this: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=3121744148088497



Newegg


Cleaned url always looks like this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=[item-id]



Ebay


Cleaned url always looks like this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/[item-id]


Works with international sites (not just .com)



Pocket


Removes redirection of Pocket links



Target


Target product URLs must be reloaded when coming from search results as they load in via code and not a page refresh


Cleaned url always looks like this: https://www.target.com/p/A-[item-id]


Removes unnecessary parameters



Other


Removes unnecessary parameters from, Twitter, StaticICE, Disqus


Removes redirection of links





This script forked from beck's script. https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/395298-general-url-cleaner

Additional fixed


[Add] Add Target.com cleaned item urls, will look like this: https://www.target.com/p/A-[item-id]


[Fix] Google Takeout downloads, added takeout.google.com to the exclusions: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/395298-general-url-cleaner/discussions/95974


[Fix] Resolved issue with Google search parameter sa, without it certain search links aren't able to redirect properly: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/395298-general-url-cleaner/discussions/95974


[Add] Strip s parameter from Twitter post links: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/395298-general-url-cleaner/discussions/71892


[Fix] Opening images from normal Google search now expands the selected image: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/395298-general-url-cleaner/discussions/87398