Share short link to comment

Question

1. Request

It would be nice, if will be script for share short links to comments on Stack Exchange sites, not long links.

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2. Justification

I found out, that links to comments may be short. For example,

• https://ru.stackoverflow.com/questions/512172/%d0%91%d1%8b%d1%81%d1%82%d1%80%d0%b0%d1%8f-%d0%b7%d0%b0%d0%bc%d0%b5%d0%bd%d0%b0-%d0%b2-%d1%82%d0%b5%d0%ba%d1%81%d1%82%d0%b5-%d0%bb%d0%b0%d1%82%d0%b8%d0%bd%d1%81%d0%ba%d0%b8%d1%85-%d1%81%d0%b8%d0%bc%d0%b2%d0%be%d0%bb%d0%be%d0%b2-%d0%bd%d0%b0-%d0%ba%d0%b8%d1%80%d0%b8%d0%bb%d0%bb%d0%b8%d1%87%d0%b5%d1%81%d0%ba%d0%b8%d0%b5-%d1%81%d0%be-%d1%81%d1%85%d0%be%d0%b4%d0%bd%d1%8b%d0%bc-%d0%bd%d0%b0%d1%87%d0%b5%d1%80%d1%82%d0%b0%d0%bd%d0%b8#comment622977_512172 — 496 characters.

is the same link as

• https://ru.stackoverflow.com/posts/comments/622977 — 49 characters

Second link is more preferred because:

1. Some web forms has a limit the number of characters.

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3. Desirable behavior

I open any page of any Stack Exchange site → near each comment I saw link, for example, clipboard → I click to clipboard → short link to comment will be transfer to my clipboard.

Answer 1

Here is a Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey script that should work. It is untested and unhosted at the moment. :

// ==UserScript==
// @name        Stack Exchange, Comment cleanup
// @description See stackapps.com/questions/7202/
// @match       *://*.askubuntu.com/questions/*
// @match       *://*.mathoverflow.net/questions/*
// @match       *://*.serverfault.com/questions/*
// @match       *://*.stackapps.com/questions/*
// @match       *://*.stackexchange.com/questions/*
// @match       *://*.stackoverflow.com/questions/*
// @match       *://*.superuser.com/questions/*
// @exclude     *://api.stackexchange.com/*
// @exclude     *://data.stackexchange.com/*
// @exclude     *://blog.stackexchange.com/*
// @exclude     *://blog.stackoverflow.com/*
// @exclude     *://chat.stackexchange.com/*
// @exclude     *://chat.stackoverflow.com/*
// @exclude     *://elections.stackexchange.com/*
// @exclude     *://openid.stackexchange.com/*
// @exclude     *://stackexchange.com/*
// @exclude     *://*/review
// @require     http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.0/jquery.min.js
// @require     https://gist.github.com/raw/2625891/waitForKeyElements.js
// @grant       GM_addStyle
// @version     0.5
// @history     0.5 Initial release, untested
// ==/UserScript==

waitForKeyElements ("a.comment-link", useShortLinkFormat);

function useShortLinkFormat (jNode) {
    var oldHref     = jNode.attr ("href");
    var commentNum  = oldHref.match (/.+?comment(\d+).+/);
    if (commentNum  &&  commentNum.length > 1) {
        var commentNum = commentNum[1];
        jNode.attr ("href", '/posts/comments/' + commentNum)
        jNode.append ('<small> sl</small>')
    }
}