PerlMonks Shortcuts in Other ChatterBox Clients

I didn't want to implement all the shortcuts PerlMonks provides in What shortcuts can I use for linking to other information? in my ChatterBox client, so I just redirected the links to /?node=.... When you clicked on [imdb://Office Space] in pm-cb-g, it opened https://www.perlmonks.org/?node=imdb://Office+Space—but after the change from April 16 ("Open redirects are disabled"), this stopped working!

Is there a way how to get the target link from a shortcut? I.e. I don't want to redirect to it, I just want to get the link back so I can open it myself.

map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]

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Re: PerlMonks Shortcuts in Other ChatterBox Clients by Corion (Patriarch) on Sep 03, 2021 at 16:51 UTC
Not yet, but it makes sense to have the functionality for expanding shortcuts available through an API. The change in April was so that the website cannot be used to obfuscate URLs for normal web browsers. I think basically the API would still be to make a GET (or POST) request and get back the resolved URL. The main change would be that it's not a HTTP redirect anymore but in the body. If you have a better idea for the API, I'm interested in hearing it :)	[reply]
Re^2: PerlMonks Shortcuts in Other ChatterBox Clients by choroba (Cardinal) on Sep 03, 2021 at 16:52 UTC
That's exactly what I would need! Being a pmdev member, I should even be able to provide it to myself... if I can get some pointers on where to start :-) `map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]\|\|0,1}[\\|\|{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^ARGV,3]`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: PerlMonks Shortcuts in Other ChatterBox Clients by LanX (Saint) on Sep 04, 2021 at 21:26 UTC
I would look for the code of the various XML tickers - you are already using one - trying to adapt it to your needs. IIRC are the link-types defined in a table like structure. The same structure is used to display the help page , so finding the help page and activating code view from the dev nodelet should do.° No idea how to create a new ticker, the gods should know. HTH :) Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery} update °) here you go handlelinks settings .	[reply]
Re^4: PerlMonks Shortcuts in Other ChatterBox Clients by choroba (Cardinal) on Sep 04, 2021 at 21:57 UTC
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Re: PerlMonks Shortcuts in Other ChatterBox Clients by choroba (Cardinal) on Sep 07, 2021 at 21:32 UTC
Thanks to Corion who provided the XML ticker resolving the shortcuts. pm-cb-g now supports shortcuts again! `map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]\|\|0,1}[\\|\|{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^ARGV,3]`	[reply] [d/l]


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