Watches your clipboard for shortened URLs and unshortens them for a less stupid paste. While doing this, it also removes known tracking parameters from the copied URLs.

Example

Start the tool and copy this link:

https://bit.ly/3QqdCUd

When you paste it anywhere, it will automatically be converted to

https://code.rosaelefanten.org/clipurlcleaner

Build

go build

On Windows

go build -ldflags="-H windowsgui"

Prebuilt binaries (Windows-only)

You can find the latest prebuilt binaries on cdn.tuxproject.de. Those are compressed with WinRAR. The current version is clipurlcleaner-win-20221021.rar (MD5: 0C2D638CE38DD49E9941F3A612B1DD11).

Run

./clipurlcleaner >/dev/null &