Stuff that occurs to me

All of my 'how to' posts are tagged here. The most popular posts are about blocking and private accounts on Twitter, also the science communication jobs list. None of the science or medical information I might post to this blog should be taken as medical advice (I'm not medically trained).

Think of this blog as a sort of nursery for my half-baked ideas hence 'stuff that occurs to me'.

Contact: @JoBrodie Email: jo DOT brodie AT gmail DOT com

Science in London: The 2018/19 scientific society talks in London blog post

Wednesday 16 May 2012

Is there a quick way of getting hold of an URL from Google search results?

Edit: 6 December 2012
I have found the solution. It is http://industrystandardsoftware.com/online_tools/converters/convert-serp-link-to-direct-location-for-copying-and-pasting.htm - hooray!

Thanks to the questioners and answerers at Stack Exchange
http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/31028/google-copy-link-location-annoyance




I want to right-click, copy link for this hit in my search results, however the URL I end up getting back turns out to be this horror:

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CGAQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.ukoln.ac.uk%2Fpatientsparticipate%2Ffiles%2F2011%2F09%2FWebPatientsParticipateSummaryReport.pdf&ei=D-WzT5fXBqqx0QXWq8DNBA&usg=AFQjCNEP6zfh7PL5u1uA98-T104jVwC6yg&sig2=8q8tEWz-_txUcMIXNbRrPg

I can see what it's meant to be from the link in green below, however there's a bit missing, denoted by /.../
It's possible to convert all %3A into : and all %2F into / so that  http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.ukoln.ac.uk becomes the more readable http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk but is there a quick way of doing that?

I think I'm looking for a website where I can plug in the unwieldy horror above, press 'tweak' and it returns this nimble little URL below.

Here's the improved link created manually by swapping out the %2F etc
http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/patientsparticipate/files/2011/09/WebPatientsParticipateSummaryReport.pdf




No comments:

Post a Comment

Comment policy: I enthusiastically welcome corrections and I entertain polite disagreement ;) Because of the nature of this blog it attracts a LOT - 5 a day at the moment - of spam comments (I write about spam practices,misleading marketing and unevidenced quackery) and so I'm more likely to post a pasted version of your comment, removing any hyperlinks.

Comments written in ALL CAPS LOCK will be deleted and I won't publish any pro-homeopathy comments, that ship has sailed I'm afraid (it's nonsense).