How to clean an Amazon link
Everything a product link needs is amazon.com/dp/ASIN — the 10-character product ID. The keywords, ref= breadcrumbs and query junk can go. Trim it by hand, or let tdy canonicalize every Amazon link you copy.
Anatomy of the monster
Reading right to left: your search keywords, the exact query you typed (sprefix even keeps your typo), a session ID, and a ref= trail describing how you navigated. None of it selects the product — B09XS7JWHH, the ASIN, does that alone.
Why bother trimming
- It's shorter — 40 characters instead of 300. It fits in a chat message without swallowing it.
- It's neutral — the recipient doesn't see what you searched, when, or what else you compared.
- It's durable — the canonical
/dp/form survives while session-laden URLs grow stale.
By hand
Find /dp/ followed by 10 characters, delete everything after those 10 characters, and everything between the domain and /dp/. Works — but it's fiddly on a phone-sized URL, every time.
Automatically
tdy's Canonicalize transform does this the moment you copy: any Amazon product URL (all the international storefronts too) collapses to its clean /dp/ASIN form, and YouTube gets the same treatment. It's a toggle — flip it off if you don't want it.
One honest note: trimming also drops affiliate tags (tag=…). If you're deliberately sharing an affiliate link, pause tdy for that copy — for every other link, that's the junk you wanted gone.
Product links that are just the product.
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