Dropbox Direct Link Modifier

Replaces www.dropbox.com with dl.dropboxusercontent.com and removes &dl=0 on copy

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// ==UserScript==
// @name         Dropbox Direct Link Modifier
// @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version      1.0
// @description  Replaces www.dropbox.com with dl.dropboxusercontent.com and removes &dl=0 on copy
// @author       You
// @match        *://*/*
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
    'use strict';

    document.addEventListener('copy', function(e) {
        // 1. Get the text currently selected by the user
        const selection = window.getSelection().toString();

        // 2. Check if the selection looks like the Dropbox link we want to modify
        if (selection.includes('www.dropbox.com') && selection.includes('dl=0')) {

            // 3. Perform the replacements
            let newText = selection.replace('www.dropbox.com', 'dl.dropboxusercontent.com');

            // Remove &dl=0 (and ?dl=0 just in case it's the first parameter)
            newText = newText.replace('&dl=0', '');
            newText = newText.replace('?dl=0', '');

            // 4. Overwrite the clipboard data
            e.clipboardData.setData('text/plain', newText);

            // 5. Prevent the default copy action so our modified version is used
            e.preventDefault();
        }
    });

})();