Bookmarklet: Get a clean, shareable Google Maps Place URL on every Google Maps Place-Page

place-url-bookmarklet.js

/**
 * How to install:
 * 1. Open the Firefox or Chrome and Add a new Bookmark-Dialogue
 * 2. Copy the line of JS from below and provide whatever name and shortcut-tags you whant
 * 
 * How to use and test it:
 * 1. Search for a place in Google Maps, click on the title to get to the place's details page. This is where google could just place a clean place-url in your browser bar but doen't.
 * 2. Click the bookmarklet and the Page reloads so you get a clean google place URL in your browser-bar.
 * 3. Jump to your browserbar with cmd+L (strg+L) and press strg+c to copy the clean URL.
**/

var urlchunks = document.getElementById('link').getAttribute('href').split(/[&?]+/); for(key in urlchunks) { if(urlchunks[key].indexOf('cid')===0) { window.location.href = (urlchunks[0] + "?" + urlchunks[key]); } }