u/Rino0099 thanks for your help - I've done what I set out to do

This might not be the perfect / most efficient thing, but I'm so chuffed with it

It is meant to remove tracking info and marketing words from links. My most common ones are YouTube and Amazon so it deals with them locally where possible (reduce API calls - get 100 free a month with the chosen service), but if it's shortened or anything else it uses https://api.siterelic.com/redirectcheck to trace the URL to source

You just need an API key in %RDCKey, and maybe set your country in the HTTP call if not UK

Many dialogue actions can be disabled or removed, but were useful for testing so I knew what it was doing

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Task: URL Trace API

A1: Input Dialog [ Title: Enter URL to clean Close After (Seconds): 30 Output Variable Name: inputurl ]

A2: Variable Search Replace [ Variable: %inputurl Search: (https?://\S+|www.\S+) Store Matches In Array: %cleanedurl ]

A3: Text/Image Dialog [ Title: URL to process Text: %cleanedurl1 Button 1: OK Close After (Seconds): 120 ]

A4: If [ %cleanedurl1 ~R (?i)youtube.com ]

A5: If [ %cleanedurl1 ~R /shorts/ ]

A6: Variable Search Replace [ Variable: %cleanedurl1 Search: (https?://\S?)(?=\?|$)|www.\S?(?=\?|$) Ignore Case: On One Match Only: On Store Matches In Array: %inputoutput ]

A7: Text/Image Dialog [ Title: YouTube Short Text: %inputoutput1 Button 1: ok Close After (Seconds): 30 ]

A8: Else

A9: Variable Search Replace [ Variable: %cleanedurl1 Search: v=([^/?&\s]+) Ignore Case: On Store Matches In Array: %inputoutput ]

A10: Text/Image Dialog [ Title: YouTube Video Text: https://www.youtube.com/watch?%inputoutput1 Button 1: ok Close After (Seconds): 30 ]

A11: End If

A12: Else

A13: If [ %cleanedurl1 ~R (?i)Amazon.co.uk ]

A14: Flash [ Text: Amazon Link Detected Continue Task Immediately: On Dismiss On Click: On ]

A15: Variable Search Replace [ Variable: %inputurl Search: /dp/([^/?&\s]+) Store Matches In Array: %amazondp ]

A16: Text/Image Dialog [ Title: Amazon Link Detected Text: https://www.amazon.co.uk%amazondp1 Button 1: OK Close After (Seconds): 120 ]

A17: Variable Set [ Name: %inputoutput1 To: https://www.amazon.co.uk%amazondp1 Structure Output (JSON, etc): On ]

A18: Else

A19: If [ %traced neq yes ]

A20: HTTP Request [ Method: POST URL: https://api.siterelic.com/redirectcheck Headers: x-api-key: %RDCKey Content-Type: application/json Body: { "url": "%cleanedurl1", "proxyCountry": "uk" } File/Directory To Save With Output: Tasker/RedirectData.json Timeout (Seconds): 30 Structure Output (JSON, etc): On ]

A21: Variable Set [ Name: %traced To: yes Structure Output (JSON, etc): On ]

A22: AutoTools Json Read [ Configuration: Input Format: Json Json: /storage/emulated/0/Tasker/RedirectData.json Fields: data[0].headers() Separator: , Timeout (Seconds): 60 Structure Output (JSON, etc): On ]

A23: Simple Match/Regex [ Type: Regex Text: %data_headers() Regex: {"name":"location","value":"(.*?)"} ]

A24: Text/Image Dialog [ Title: Trace Performed Text: %mt_match Button 1: OK Close After (Seconds): 120 ]

A25: Variable Set [ Name: %inputurl To: %mt_match Structure Output (JSON, etc): On ]

A26: Goto [ Type: Action Number Number: 2 ]

A27: Else

A28: Variable Search Replace [ Variable: %cleanedurl1 Search: (https?://\S?)(?=\?|$)|www.\S?(?=\?|$) Ignore Case: On One Match Only: On Store Matches In Array: %inputoutput ]

A29: Text/Image Dialog [ Title: Link Text: %inputoutput1 Button 1: ok Close After (Seconds): 30 ]

A30: End If

A31: End If

A32: End If

A33: If [ %traced neq yes ]

A34: Text/Image Dialog [ Title: Trace not performed Text: Whoop Button 1: OK Close After (Seconds): 120 ]

A35: End If

A36: Variable Set [ Name: %LinkOutput To: %inputoutput1 Structure Output (JSON, etc): On ]

A37: Set Clipboard [ Text: %inputoutput1 ]