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!

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    22 hours ago

    Query parameters are junk? They have tons of legitimate uses, they’re one of the better places to keep state.

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      10 hours ago

      As a WebDev… URL parameters are definitely not the place to keep state… Were not in the 00’s anymore. They do have legit uses, but we have JS localStorage nowadays.

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        9 hours ago

        They have pretty different use cases. Localstorage is for when you want persistence across page loads, not necessarily specific to any particular page but specific to a browser. An example would be storing user-selected light or dark mode.

        Query parameters are specific to a page/URL and you get a lot of things for free when you use them:

        • back/forward navigation
        • bookmarking
        • copy-paste to share
        • page level caching
        • access on both server and client

        Query parameters are good for things like searches, filters, sorting, etc