polomarcus / faster-links

On Twitter only, it replaces all shortened URLs with real URLs without UTMs

Faster links - Chrome extension

Download

Chrome webstore link : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ojggkiabpbjlckhpaphgdhhojgcpimah

For all you shortened URLs haters!

TL,DR :

Replaces all shortened URLs with real URLs without UTM to save precious seconds and finally know where we click without being tracked. Only for Twitter and TweetDeck

Twitter redirects every URLs to t.co in order to track clicks, OK cool, why not, but it makes us waste some precious seconds of our life everytime we click on a link on Twitter. To counter that, this extension replaces all links with a t.co redirect and all shortened URLS (bit.ly and so on) with their real URLs, and also display the full URL on the tweet because who gives a f. about the 140 chars limit on Tweeter?

Without Faster links

Long link

Short URL

With Faster links

Long link

Short URL

## Develop

grunt watch

Code here : https://github.com/polomarcus/faster-links/tree/master/app/scripts.babel

Most of information can be found here : https://github.com/yeoman/generator-chrome-extension

## Tests All tests are located here : test/spec/test.js and use http://mochajs.org/

Execute them :

grunt test

What's next ?

Right now, this extension only makes Twitter faster (t.co URLs). It would be cool to add these APIs for other websites :

• https://bitly.com/
• http://unshorten.it/api

Credit

LinksPeelr API : https://github.com/ibagrak/linkpeelr

Copyright

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

Icon from https://www.iconfinder.com/icons/353839/chain_link_seo_icon#size=128 under Creative Commons (Attribution 3.0 Unported)

faster-links's Issues

Feature Request: Option to keep the URLs short visually

Basically, just change the actual link not the visible link. TweetDeck looks pretty messy with tweets with insanely long links that websites tend to have these days! Thanks for this great app.

Remove t.co link from profile's URL

var profileLink = document.querySelector('.ProfileHeaderCard-urlText > a');
profileLink.setAttribute('href', profileLink.getAttribute('title');

Remove UTM

https://github.com/rik/au-revoir-utm/blob/master/data/utm.js#L2

Doesn't work on tweetdeck

Hi,
I installed the extension in the latest chrome, os x yosemite. I can see the extension is working on twitter but not tweetdeck. It seems to me the extension promises to replace t.co link wherever they happen to be. Am I right? Thanks

After a scroll, bit.ly are still there

Missing domain parameter in the setInterval method :

• https://github.com/polomarcus/faster-links/blob/master/app/scripts.babel/contentscript.js#L160

thanks @alicflorez 👍