Amazon product URLs are notorious for their length. A single "Copy link" from a product page can easily hit 200+ characters. Most of that is tracking, not the actual product address.

What the parts of an Amazon URL mean

A typical Amazon product URL looks like:

https://www.amazon.com/Product-Name/dp/B0XXXXXXXX/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=foo&tag=affiliate-20&psc=1

The important part is /dp/B0XXXXXXXX — the ASIN (Amazon Standard Identification Number). Everything after the ? is optional and can be stripped:

• tag — the affiliate tag that pays commission to whoever shared the link. Remove this to strip affiliate attribution.
• ref / ref_ — how you found the product (search result position, carousel, etc.).
• psc, th, pd_rd_*, pf_rd_* — internal Amazon attribution.
• keywords — the search terms that surfaced the product.

The minimum viable Amazon URL

You can shorten almost any Amazon product link to this format:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0XXXXXXXX

That link still works, still shows the product, and is a fraction of the size. SlinkyLinky's Clean step removes affiliate and tracking parameters automatically, though it keeps the product name slug for readability.

A note on affiliate links

If someone shared a link with you and you'd like to keep their affiliate credit, don't clean the URL — visit it as-is. If you're saving links for your own reference or sharing them without wanting to pass affiliate credit along, cleaning is the polite default.