I want to provide links to various video items on Amazon but the links are often meaningless 6 line monsters.
How can I shorten them to something more meaningful and under one line in length.
I used to know how to do it many years ago.
Mac mini, macOS 13.6
Finally I have been shown how to do it (The Lounge).
Click on the "Add Link" button at the bottom of the Reply page . . .
. . . . and in the window that opens paste the URL in the bottom box and put your chosen name in the upper box.
Click "Save" and this is what you get . . .
It's much quicker and easier than the old "href" method and it's been staring me in the face for the past 10(?) years!
I don't believe it.
Viewers of the UK sitcom "One Foot in the Grave" may recognise that as one of Victor Meldrew's catch-phrases.
Finally I have been shown how to do it (The Lounge).
Click on the "Add Link" button at the bottom of the Reply page . . .
. . . . and in the window that opens paste the URL in the bottom box and put your chosen name in the upper box.
Click "Save" and this is what you get . . .
It's much quicker and easier than the old "href" method and it's been staring me in the face for the past 10(?) years!
I don't believe it.
Viewers of the UK sitcom "One Foot in the Grave" may recognise that as one of Victor Meldrew's catch-phrases.
This is not something that I have used, but I know that tynyurl provides that service. There are probably others too, but this one has existed for a long time.
Tinyurl works . . . thanks.
The only problem is that I can't get it to give a meaningful name.
They provide an "Alias" box into which I typed "Video Capture card" but that was rejected so I ended up leaving it blank.
Basically, everything after the first "?" are parameters that are passed on the code running that page.
So maybe it does not do exactly the same thing, but will land you on the right page, nevertheless.
I am disappointed Luis as I believed you to be omniscient in these matters. 😳
However, as I started reading your reply I remembered that in the old days there was a fairly simple line of code into which one inserted a title . . . the only bit I can remember is "href" which appeared somewhere along the line.
I have now done a web search but can only find huge tracts of information that do not seem to address my issue.
No problem. It's a bit of both. Most of the time I will be posting on these forums but there are also occasions when I need to shorten a link elsewhere.
I was also told by Ronda Wilson that you can shorten links (anywhere) like Amazon's and just use the first line which is simple enough and gets rid of that ugly paragraph of code.
Ian, sorry I had not realized that you meant to post a link here. I thought you just wanted a shorter url.
I am glad that in the end you found the answer on your own.
How do I shorten a multi-line URL ?
