#link #clipboard #tracking #remove #paste #youtube #information

bin+lib clipclean

Removes tracking information from url-links in clipboard, useful for sanitizing those links you want to copy paste

12 releases

0.2.4 Mar 5, 2021
0.2.3 Mar 5, 2021
0.2.1 Jan 7, 2021
0.1.6 Mar 20, 2020
0.1.2 Nov 22, 2018

#12 in #paste

36 downloads per month

MIT license

66KB
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clipclean

Latest version License

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Removes the tracking part of links you have put in your clipboard (Copy-Pasting), very useful when you want to forward that link you got from a messenger, or youtube chat to another application or to paste it into a word document.

Example

When copying a link without clipclean from a facebook messenger chat, something like this is what will end up in your clipboard:

https://l.messenger.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fstory%2Ffacebook-scandals-2018%2F&h=AT2BKvc_VxdVhNxWsy6bFRdbp15GPkOCk2MMWqqDnw4tQx1pe3gGVwvkN1GmuZ5se0zp1DZSrx0JK1JgvwBseu0_rOav1U1T41vR6WhnwYgszi79iJv-rqetVWQ

When using clipclean, the true target will be what is stored in your clipboard, and will basically make the link look a lot more trustworthy, wherever it will end up. The below link is the same site that the above link will take you to, just that facebook will not know that it was originally from one of their chats.

https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-scandals-2018/?

Installation and running

This assumes that cargo is installed on your system, and in your path, as well as the cargo binary folder is in your path.

cargo install clipclean
clipclean

Windows

cargo install --no-default-features clipclean

Dependencies

~1–25MB
~378K SLoC