nearby.org.uk blog » Czar http://www.nearby.org.uk/blog GIS, maps, mapping, geo, UK, Geograph, PHP, Perl and more Fri, 01 Jul 2011 18:59:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 URLsnipper for Google URLs http://www.nearby.org.uk/blog/2009/03/31/urlsnipper-for-google-urls/ http://www.nearby.org.uk/blog/2009/03/31/urlsnipper-for-google-urls/#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:27:06 +0000 Barry http://www.nearby.org.uk/blog/?p=266 I am often copy/pasting links to Google searches – particully on Google Maps. Nearly every time I have to hand edit the URL – mainly as I KNOW a large proportion is redundant. Quite frankly a long url is scary, and others know it too. 

Anyway so I created a little script for my own use to cut down the URL automatically:

URLsnipper for Google URLs

It has a good understanding of Google Maps URLs, and reasonable for Google Web search, so it makes a fair attempt at deducing unneeded bits, however it also provides tickboxes to truely customise the result to your own taste :)

Example (a fairly mundane one)

will add support for other urls at some point, blogsearch, news etc. 

 

Partly inspired by this

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