Clean URLs in youtube description

[madpipeline]

I've tried looking into creating my own rule, but don't understand how the regex is to be formed.

Example page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV7csY0mRgM

In it's description there are several links, all of them formed like this:

https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbmoxbGoyTG80MFZMdXdHOGc3OXliVi1zMWItd3xBQ3Jtc0trWElFNTBlQjJBODJPYkQwdUlOSkZZUGh0cXdPakg1ZDViektvdm4tYXpMUDFzRFpiQ0FWTWczQ2pEYlNqbmNRUkdPV29jN3JHeXhub0xIaTQ4eGFYN2UtbDljREFvWW1McG5vS1k4SG5KODBxYjl3NA&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.recorder.ro%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B

All these links should be cleaned and shown like this:

https://www.recorder.ro​​

I've tried looking through the existing rules and I think groups are used, but I'm not sure how.

Some examples in the wiki would be useful, but also this rule could be part of the default rules.

[Cimbali]

They seem to be cleaned automatically − are you sure it’s not the case ? In that case you might have whitelisted something (maybe accidentally).

• To test the addon’s cleaning mechanism with out-of-the-box rules, you can use https://cimbali.github.io/CleanLinks/ Copying and pasting the link you provide there and clicking « Clean it! » correctly cleans the link.

• Clicking the link from the page you suggest also works for me, with the addon popup indicating the link was cleaned :

  

• Rules are for white listing, i.e. preventing the cleaning of some links. Not sure which rules you have but you can filter them − try looking at all links that contain youtube. There’s rather few global rules.

Can you confirm the link is not cleaned ?

[madpipeline]

Ok, I think I misunderstood how this extension works.

If I open the youtube page, and hover over the links in the description, I'm still shown the tracking link.

However, if I click on the link, I see the it doesn't take me to the tracking link , but takes me directly to the target link.

This is slightly confusing. Is this the expected behavior?

[Cimbali]

Yes, that’s the expected behaviour ! It allows to:

• not have to parse all the page thus limit accessing user data
• clean links that are not explicitely contained on the page (redirects, javascript-created links on the fly, etc.) that we would otherwise miss

[Cimbali]

By the way @madpipeline you can access the clean link without opening it by right-clicking the link and using « Copy Clean Link » (if the feature « copy clean links from the context menu » is enabled).

[madpipeline]

Thank you.