Expand t.co URLs and cleanup

[sindresorhus]

We should expand the useless t.co redirects to the full URL. The full URL is available in the .js-display-url element.

We should also clean away query params like:

• utm_source
• utm_medium
• utm_content
• utm_campaign
• utm_term
• utm_id
• ref=producthunt

Suggestions for additional ones are welcome!

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[fregante]

https://github.com/bevacqua/ftco

[polomarcus]

Glad to read someone who has the same opinion as me on Twitter URL and UTMs 😊

I'll try to make a PR for this. I've done similar work for a chrome extension as well

https://dev.to/paulleclercq/twitter-without-short-links--1cig

[polomarcus]

Hi @sindresorhus

I would like to add my Mocha tests from my chrome extension to the projects, but I'm not sure how to add them.

Could you show me an example please ?

https://github.com/sindresorhus/refined-twitter/blob/master/test/index.js

[sindresorhus]

test.serial('should remove every t.co URLs with their real URLs', t => {
  const tweet = document.querySelector('#testExtension');
  tweet.setAttribute('href', 'http://t.co/fdmQ6yXo8G');

  tCoUrls();

  // Now we check that we do not have http://t.co/fdmQ6yXo8G anymore
  t.is(tweet.getAttribute('href'), 'http://www.wake-me-up.co');
});

More in the docs: https://github.com/avajs/ava

[kurtextrem]

	function removeUtms(inputUrl) {
		var url = new URL(inputUrl)

		url.searchParams.forEach(function(value, key) {
			if (value.indexOf('utm_') !== -1 || key === 'ref' || key === 'affil' || key === 'zanpid')
				url.searchParams.delete(key)
		})

		return url.toString()
	}

This snippet is to clean utm_ etc. I wouldn't however clean ref=producthunt as many sites give special offers for ProductHunters

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[sindresorhus]

Closing as this extension is now deprecated.