[Feature Request] Prevent the app from generating unique URLs on sharing posts, reels, etc

[lyubomyr-shaydariv]

Instagram uses the igshid URL tracking parameter for shared post/reels/etc links. Everytime a user shares a post to an external app, Instagram makes an additional server request generating the igshid parameter. So a canonical post URL say https://www.instagram.com/p/foo_bar becomes https://www.instagram.com/p/foo_bar?igshid=qux.

This also takes some time making a lag and also, if I'm not mistaken, increases the number of shares for the particular post.

(N.B. The list of Instagram URL tracking parameters I'm aware of, but not necessarily generated on sharing posts, includes 'igshid', 'ig_rid', 'e', 'g', 'igsh', /^saved[-_]by$/.)

[ReSo7200]

We alr have this implemented...

[lyubomyr-shaydariv]

@ReSo7200, unfortunately it does not work at least for com.instagram.android:392.2.0.58.78 and I suspect it didn't work for earlier versions in my setup.

URL cleanup

Okay, I've just found the URL clean up

InstaEclipse/app/src/main/java/ps/reso/instaeclipse/mods/ads/TrackingLinkDisable.java

Line 25 in 62aca06

if (x.contains("https://www.instagram.com/") && x.contains("?igsh=")) { // Global

. Two years ago I implemented a very simple Xposed module to remove the tracking parameters for Instagram. As I'm not an Android dev, my code might be excessive, but it works at least for this template:

for ( final Method method : ClipboardManager.class.getDeclaredMethods() ) {
	final String name = method.getName();
	final Class<?>[] parameterTypes = method.getParameterTypes();
	if ( "setText".equals(name)
			&& parameterTypes.length == 1
			&& parameterTypes[0] == CharSequence.class
	) {
		XposedBridge.hookMethod(method, new XC_MethodHook() {
			// ...
		});
		continue;
	}
	if ( "setPrimaryClip".equals(name)
			&& parameterTypes.length == 1
			&& parameterTypes[0] == ClipData.class ) {
		XposedBridge.hookMethod(method, new XC_MethodHook() {
			// ...
		});
		continue;
	}
	XposedBridge.hookMethod(method, new XC_MethodHook() {
		@Override
		protected void beforeHookedMethod(final MethodHookParam methodHookParam) {
			Logs.debug(Shared.TAG, () -> String.format("Hooked but not processed: %s %s", method, Arrays.toString(methodHookParam.args)));
		}
	});
}

I can't recall exactly, but I had to hook these two methods not setPrimaryClip only.

• Enabling InstaEclipse in LSPosed does not work for this scenario.
• Enabling both my module and InstaEclipse makes shared URLs clean.

Excessive network requests

I may be wrong, but I didn't find this in the InstaEclipse source code.

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Could you please consider reopening the issue?

[ReSo7200]

Thx for the great details, I will check it this weekend...

it seems you are right, and the code isn't working anymore

[ReSo7200]

Hello again, So I have checked the code, and as it seems, clicking "copy link" would work fine, but clicking "share" and copying the link after wouldn't work...

[ReSo7200]

So I am going to leave it as it is but would add some of the share params u shared, big thx