On Tuesday 15 September 2020 11:51:11 CEST René J.V. Bertin wrote: > Hi, > > I guess we're all familiar with documents (say, emails) containing links to > websites that are not "clickable", so you have to copy and then paste them > into your browser. > > I've tried to come up with something to use the Web Shortcuts feature to > open them with just 2 clicks, but failed until now. The feature really > seems to be designed to open the selected text in a search engine. > > I guess that what you'd need is an existing simple web proxy that takes an > encoded URL and then sends you there, so you could create a shortcut to > something like `https://go.to/\{@}`. I haven't found one yet (hard to come > up with a selective search key!). Alternatively, if the feature supports > local file URLs and those support arguments, you could replace the > `https://go.to/` part with a `file://path/to/goto.html/` file. > > I have about zero experience doing web/html/JS coding but maybe someone here > can tell me if this is possible and give me some pointers? > > Thanks, > R.
Hi there,
I just played around with it a bit and came up with this:
I have a simple HTML file located locally on my computer and use JavaScript to
correctly parse the URL.
My shortcut URL is
file:///home/scrumplex/redirect.html#\{0}
I am using {0} here so you can also preserve the parameters of an URL (?
foo=bar&bar=foo).
That file's content is here: https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2015231
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Sefa Eyeoglu
https://scrumplex.net[1]
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