Blogger: How to remove date from url

August 3, 2020

I was annoyed about standard blogger post url with a date in it e.g. https://tdalon.blogspot.com/2020/07/teamsy.html . I wanted a date neutral one so I can redirect documentation with a fixed doc root url (example from internal to external). Instead of previous url https://tdalon.blogspot.com/2020/07/teamsy.html something like this: https://tdalon.blogspot.com/teamsy This is a solution I have found to fix it.

Update: the original code is provided here: https://github.com/jokenox/bloggerjs by Kenny Cruz.

You shall copy the code just below the <head> tag in your Html Template.

by Indranil Paul, 2020-17-03. (it looks to me Indranil just stole this code without credit)

After some experimenting, I have reverted to converting all the links to URL without dates because:

When you share a link to twitter the preview does not work with cleaned-up links
You can not link to a specific part of a post (using anchor id) like for example https://tdalon.blogspot.com/2020/09/teams-presentation-with-video.html#ndi : if you redirect to clean links with this code the anchor will be removed (issue 4)
[I have tried to fix the code for this but couldn't]

I use now the following configuration:

// Configuration
var config = {
postsDatePrefix: true,
accessOnly: true,
useApiV3: false,
apiKey: "mykey"
}

This allows me to use shortened URL like https://tdalon.blogspot.com/teamsy instead of https://tdalon.blogspot.com/2020/07/teamsy.html

I have updated my NWS PowerTool so that IntelliPaste will also clean-up such blogger links automatically.

Experimenting with using the API key (it shall be faster) did not work for me. See reported issue

Thanks to Kenny Cruz for sharing this!

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