Open strip-query-params in Script Kit

🗡️ Strip Query Params

• ⌨️ Prompts the user for a URL
• 🗡️ Cuts off all query params
• 🛡️ Maintains essential query params (e.g., youtube.com/watch?v=[videoId])
• 📋 Automatically copies the updated URL to the clipboard.

Useful for removing tracking / other information from URLs before sharing with others.

Examples

|Site|Input|Output| |-|-|-| |Facebook Video|https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1233056997105202&extid=NS-UNK-CHE-UNK-IOS_WXYZ-ABCD&mibextid=cfeeni&ref=sharing|https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1233056997105202| |Facebook|https://www.facebook.com/groups/funnycatsworld/permalink/5619404908185458/?mibextid=cfeeni|https://www.facebook.com/groups/funnycatsworld/permalink/5619404908185458/| |Instagram|https://www.instagram.com/reel/CnxZnkRprAD/?igshid=YmNmMTdmZDM=|https://www.instagram.com/reel/CnxZnkRprAD/| |YouTube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWRPYBoCEaY&ab_channel=NoBoilerplate|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWRPYBoCEaY|

// Name: 🗡️ Strip Query Params
// Description: Strips query params from a URL.
// Author: Ryan Baer

import "@johnlindquist/kit";

// TODO: let's leverage the awesome `db` feature and allow users to add their own
// rules.
const requiredParams: Record<string, string[]> = {
  // youtube.com/watch?v=[videoId] requires the 'v' param to locate the video
  "youtube.com": ["v"],
  // facebook.com/watch/?v=[videoId] requires the 'v' param to locate the video
  "facebook.com": ["v"],
};

function stripQueryParams(input: string) {
  const url = new URL(input);

  function getBaseDomain(hostname: string) {
    const [tld, base] = hostname.split(".").reverse();

    return `${base}.${tld}`;
  }

  // Clone so we're not deleting from the list as we're iterating it.
  const searchParams = new URLSearchParams(url.searchParams);

  searchParams.forEach((_value, key) => {
    const baseDomain = getBaseDomain(url.hostname);
    const skip = requiredParams[baseDomain];
    if (skip?.includes(key)) {
      return;
    }

    url.searchParams.delete(key);
  });

  return url.href;
}

const input = await arg("Enter a URL");
const result = stripQueryParams(input);

await copy(result);

await div(
  md(`# 🔬 Result (automatically copied to clipboard)
\`\`\`
${result}
\`\`\`
`)
);