User:PrimeBOT/Task 17

Status and updates for Task 17

List of params

• Doing
  • utm_ - confirmed tracking
  • cmpid
  • mbid - confirmed tracking
  • fbclid
  • sp(Mailing|User|Job|Report|Pod)Id - confirmed tracking
• Possible
  • CNDID
  • WT.ec_id
  • cid
  • sp_mid
  • sp_rid
• Necessary to keep
  • None currently

Bugs to fix/patches to make

• Parameter order matters? Found a few instances where &a=___?b=___ worked but not &b=___?a=____
• Avoid removing --> if stuck to the end of the URL

Regex updates

because these things are boring

Original \??(?:&?utm_[^=]*?=[^&\s\]\|]*)+(?=]|\s|\|)|(?<=\?)(?:&?utm_[^=]*?=[^&\s\]\|]*)+& 27 May (BRFA trial) - add green code to catch utm_ params in the middle, and catching more end-of-URL possibilities \??(?:&?utm_[^=\s]*?=[^&\s\]\|]*?)+(?=}|]|\s|\|)|(?<=\?)(?:&?utm_[^=\s]*?=[^&\s\]\|]*)+&|(?<=&)(?:&?utm_[^=\s]*?=[^&\s\]\|]*)+& 7 June (catch ref tags) - add < to end-of-check exceptions \??(?:&?utm_[^=\s]*?=[^&\s\]\|]*?)+(?=<|}|]|\s|\|)|(?<=\?)(?:&?utm_[^=\s]*?=[^&\s\]\|]*)+&|(?<=&)(?:&?utm_[^=\s]*?=[^&\s\]\|]*)+& 8 June (catch malformed utm_ params) - utm_ must be followed by text and an = \??(?:&?utm_[^=\s\|<}\]]*?=[^&\s\]\|]*?)+(?=<|}|]|\s|\|)|(?<=\?)(?:&?utm_[^=\s\|<}\]]*?=[^&\s\]\|]*)+&|(?<=&)(?:&?utm_[^=\s\|<}\]]*?=[^&\s\]\|]*)+& 10 June (avoid web archive links) (?<!https://web.archive.org[\S]+)(\??(?:&?utm_[^=\s\|<}\]]*?=[^&\s\]\|]*?)+(?=<|}|]|\s|\|)|(?<=\?)(?:&?utm_[^=\s\|<}\]]*?=[^&\s\]\|]*)+&|(?<=&)(?:&?utm_[^=\s\|<}\]]*?=[^&\s\]\|]*)+&) 1 July (avoid _utms just hanging out in text) (?<!https://web.archive.org[\S]+|\||\s)(\??(?:&?utm_[^=\s\|<}\]]*?=[^&\s\]\|]*?)+(?=<|}|]|\s|\|)|(?<=\?)(?:&?utm_[^=\s\|<}\]]*?=[^&\s\]\|]*)+&|(?<=&)(?:&?utm_[^=\s\|<}\]]*?=[^&\s\]\|]*)+&)