JWWN Shortlink

URL shortener for jw.org share links

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Why?

1. It’s short.
2. If the Set language box is not selected, the shortlink is language agnostic. It will open in the language last used by jw.org. (Nice 😁)

Is this OK?

We’ll leave it up for you to decide. 😅 What we know is:

• Shortlinks have no tracking, no cookies, and no fingerprinting. (All this was made for personal use, not for business.)
• Links are allowed in jw.org’s Terms of Use. If you want to check it out: jwwn.link/1011511?p=21-23 (shortlink 😄)

How?

Consider this example on jw.org:
https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/memorial/

To share that page, you’ll need to scroll down, click  Share, and this share link will show up:
https://www.jw.org/finder?wtlocale=E&docid=1011268&srcid=share

Note the value of the docid parameter:
https://www.jw.org/finder?wtlocale=E&docid=1011268&srcid=share

The shortlink would simply be:
👉 jwwn.link/1011268 👈

Neat, right? Video share links work in the same way. Only instead of the docid parameter it will use the value of the lank parameter.

Geek?

If you would like to play with URL parameters, jwwn.link/ can be used instead of www.jw.org/finder. For the example above, this link will land on the same page:

jwwn.link/?docid=1011268&wtlocale=E

Just make sure you have one of these parameters in the URL: docid, lank, pub, or alias.

Guess what? We have shortened versions of search query parameters, which we call… shortparams. 🤪

• a = alias
• b = bible
• d = date
• i = issue
• l = wtlocale
• m = pub
• p = par
• t = ts

Nerdy notes:

1. This now works both client-side and not server-side. Javascript is needed for client-side to work.
2. Command line tools that don’t process JS, like curl or wget, won’t work.
3. Messaging app crawlers generally will not follow redirects from jwwn.link. Thus the Open Graph data of the landing page is not read. This means that generally there will be no link previews when sharing JWWN shortlinks.
4. If the browser does not have language preference cookies for jw.org, like when a device visits jw.org for the first time, landing pages may default to English. In the rare case where the publication or video is not available in English, jw.org will redirect the user to the homepage. If that is problematic, tick the option Set language in the generator.

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