{"id":3414,"date":"2015-09-06T22:10:47","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T22:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=3414"},"modified":"2025-07-07T16:52:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T15:52:40","slug":"directlinks-better-link-copying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/directlinks-better-link-copying\/","title":{"rendered":"DirectLinks: Better link copying"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saw this on DaringFireball<\/a>.
\nDirectLinks – Canisbos<\/a> is a Safari extension. Really useful for copying links from Google Search results. Update 6 Sep 2021<\/strong>: extension is gone, se DF for details, link now to archive. Ironic that the link goes to spam sites now.<\/em><\/p>\n

Normally when you try and copy a link from a google search you get this sort of thing:
\nhttps:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCwQFjABahUKEwjq9YnOtOPHAhXxS9sKHUQDB-k&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFolktale&usg=AFQjCNHDEzwkM43l294OJ6AptxA7_Gg1pw&sig2=Lnf3ewVtFjbDOa7bl3SosA<\/code><\/p>\n

As google wraps the link so that they can count clicks. Installing the DirectLinks extension means if I copy the same link I get:
\nhttps:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Folktale<\/code><\/p>\n

Which is a lot more useful. \u00a0A quick google finds ways of doing this in Firefox and chrome<\/a> too. I’ve not tested those.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saw this on DaringFireball. DirectLinks – Canisbos is a Safari extension. Really useful for copying links from Google Search results. Update 6 Sep 2021: extension is gone, se DF for details, link now to archive. Ironic that the link goes to spam sites now. Normally when you try and copy a link from a google […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[409,6],"tags":[62,502],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-enviable-stuff","8":"category-wwwd","9":"tag-google","10":"tag-safari","11":"kind-bookmark","13":"h-entry","14":"hentry","15":"post-kind"},"better_featured_image":{"id":3415,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":700,"height":189,"file":"2015\/09\/copy-link.png","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"copy-link-150x150.png","width":150,"height":150,"mime-type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/copy-link-150x150.png"},"medium":{"file":"copy-link-620x167.png","width":620,"height":167,"mime-type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/copy-link-620x167.png"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"copy-link-668x180.png","width":668,"height":180,"mime-type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/copy-link-668x180.png"},"sempress-image-post":{"file":"copy-link-668x180.png","width":668,"height":180,"mime-type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/copy-link-668x180.png"},"rpwe-thumbnail":{"file":"copy-link-45x45.png","width":45,"height":45,"mime-type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/copy-link-45x45.png"},"jetpack-portfolio-admin-thumb":{"file":"copy-link-50x50.png","width":50,"height":50,"mime-type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/copy-link-50x50.png"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":0,"credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":0,"copyright":"","focal_length":0,"iso":0,"shutter_speed":0,"title":"","orientation":0}},"post":3414,"source_url":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/copy-link.png"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/copy-link.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-T4","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3414"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15388,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414\/revisions\/15388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3414"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=3414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}