Warn about Link URLs with Tracking Params or Paywall Redirects

[tpreusse]

Input from Dialog

Extend current URL validation to also warn about any utm params and abo.nzz.ch redirects.

[tpreusse]

Extend here:

publikator-frontend/components/Publication/useValidation.js

Lines 21 to 59 in a9ab021

	visit(content, 'link', node => {
	const urlObject = parse(node.url)
	const warnings = []
	const errors = []
	if (!node.url || !node.url.trim()) {
	errors.push('empty')
	} else {
	if (urlObject.path) {
	if (
	!urlObject.protocol &&
	urlObject.path[0] !== '/' &&
	urlObject.path[0] !== '#' &&
	urlObject.path[0] !== '?'
	) {
	errors.push('relative')
	}
	if (urlObject.pathname.endsWith('.webp')) {
	warnings.push('webp')
	}
	if (
	(!urlObject.protocol || FRONTEND_HOSTNAME === urlObject.hostname) &&
	urlObject.path.startsWith('/~')
	) {
	const slug = urlObject.pathname.split('~')[1]
	if (!isUUID.v4(slug)) {
	warnings.push('profiles')
	}
	}
	}
	if (urlObject.hostname) {
	if (
	urlObject.hostname.startsWith('ww.') ||
	urlObject.hostname.startsWith('wwww.')
	) {
	warnings.push('wwwws')
	}
	}
	}

[salim-b]

Maybe you could use the rules from Neat URL to strip tracking params :)

[caillou]

There is an NPM package, also called neat-url. It was not updated since a year and is using the depricated URL.parse(). But the code is pretty straight forward https://gitlab.com/Cyprias/neat-url/-/blob/master/src/index.js