Shorten links in URL

Question

EDIT: See this answer if you also want your links to not overfull (they'll hyphenate wherever they see fit though)

I have seen this, but biblatex is used there, I don't use that in my case.

Is there a way for me to do:

\url{https://example.tld/example/something/}

Or, if it's possible, maybe even:

\url{https://www.example.tld/example/something/}

And, instead of getting

https://www.example.tld/example/something/

as an output in the document

to get this:

example.tld/example/something

but still have it pointing to the full link?

Is there no solution to this? Do I just have to \href all my links?:

\href{https://www.example.tld/example/something/}{example.tld/example/something}

Or is there anything that automatically takes care of this?

I am asking this because, if I type the link in the \url command like I'd want it to be displayed, it isn't always going to work when it gets clicked on.

Answer 1

You can define a new command for this propose, for example as:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\newcommand{\shortlink}[1]{\href{https://www.#1}{\texttt{#1}}}
\begin{document}
\shortlink{example.tld/example/something}
\end{document}

Answer 2

Here's LaTeX3 based solution that uses regex to perform an advanced match like in the post you refer.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{expl3}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\ExplSyntaxOn
\newcommand{\clearurl}[1]{
    \tl_set:Nn \parsed_url {#1}
    \regex_replace_all:nnN {.://(?:www.)?(.[^\/])/?} {\1} \parsed_url
    \href{#1}{\texttt{\parsed_url}}
}
\ExplSyntaxOff
\begin{document}
Follow the link: \clearurl{https://example.tld/example/something/}
\end{document}

Note that there are dozen of packages that already load expl3 (for instance xparse), so you might even not need to use \usepackage{expl3}

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Edit:

There's discussed in comments problem with hyphenation because of the way \texttt works. Here's a fix based on this answer.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{expl3}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\makeatletter
\DeclareRobustCommand\ttfamily
        {\not@math@alphabet\ttfamily\mathtt
         \fontfamily\ttdefault\selectfont\hyphenchar\font=-1\relax}
\makeatother
\DeclareTextFontCommand{\mytexttt}{\ttfamily\hyphenchar\font=`/\relax}
\ExplSyntaxOn
\newcommand{\clearurl}[1]{
    \tl_set:Nn \parsed_url {#1}
    \regex_replace_all:nnN {.://(?:www.)?(.[^\/])/?} {\1} \parsed_url
    \href{#1}{\mytexttt{\parsed_url}}
}
\ExplSyntaxOff
\begin{document}
Follow the link: \clearurl{https://example.tld/example/something/}
\end{document}