Amazon and eBay love to use ugly links which aren’t nice to share. Here’s two bookmarklets to clean up these URLs before copying them.

How to use

Create a bookmark in your browser of choice, copy and paste the below code into the URL part of the bookmark, give it a witty name and save.

Tested with ebay.co.uk, ebay.com, ebay.de, amazon.co.uk, amazon.com in Chrome

eBay

javascript:(function(s){var l = /(.*ebay\..*itm.).*\/(\d+).*/.exec(location); prompt('Short URL', l[1]+l[2])})()

Amazon

javascript:(function(s){var l = /(.*amazon\..*?\/).*(dp\/.*?\/).*/.exec(location); prompt('Short URL', l[1]+l[2])})()