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A Hammerspoon (https://www.hammerspoon.org/) script to scrub tracking variables from Twitter share links in your pasteboard (clipboard).
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pasteboard_scrubber.lua
function pasteboard_scrubber(copied_value)
local t_match = "^(https://twitter.com/[a-zA-Z0-9_]+/status/[0-9a-zA-Z]+)[?]+.+$"
local _, _, matched_value = string.find(copied_value, t_match)
if matched_value ~= nil then
-- Replace URL in pasteboard
hs.pasteboard.writeObjects(matched_value)
end
end
-- Watch for new values in pasteboard
myWatcher = hs.pasteboard.watcher.new(pasteboard_scrubber):start()
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