Linktastic

About

Stop pasting ugly URLs. Linktastic copies the current page as a clickable hyperlink — the page title linked to the URL — so you can paste it directly into Google Docs, Notion, Slack, email, or any rich text editor. One click, one clean link. No formatting, no fiddling, no extra steps.


KEY FEATURES

★ One-click rich link copying — Click the toolbar icon and the current page is copied as a formatted hyperlink (e.g., "How to Bake Bread" instead of https://example.com/how-to-bake-bread)

★ Keyboard shortcut support — Set a custom shortcut in chrome://extensions/shortcuts for even faster access

★ Works everywhere you paste — Google Docs, Notion, Slack, Outlook, Gmail, Apple Mail, Confluence, and any app that accepts rich text

★ Dual-format clipboard — Copies both rich HTML and plain text to your clipboard, so the right format is used automatically depending on where you paste

★ Toast notification — A brief, non-intrusive confirmation appears on the page so you always know the copy succeeded

★ Three-tier clipboard fallback — Uses the modern Clipboard API when available, falls back to navigator.clipboard.writeText, then to document.execCommand for maximum browser compatibility

★ Lightweight — Vanilla JavaScript, no frameworks, no bundlers, roughly 200 lines of code. Manifest V3 compliant.

★ 100% on-device — Everything happens in your browser. No data is sent anywhere, ever.


HOW IT WORKS

1. Navigate to any web page.
2. Click the Linktastic icon in your toolbar (or press your custom keyboard shortcut).
3. The page title and URL are combined into a formatted HTML link and placed on your clipboard.
4. Paste into any rich text editor. You get a clean, clickable hyperlink — not a raw URL.

That's it. No popup, no configuration, no account required.


WHY LINKTASTIC

Privacy first — Linktastic runs entirely on your device. There are no analytics, no tracking pixels, no server calls, and no third-party scripts. Your browsing data never leaves your browser.

Open source — The full source code is available on GitHub under the MIT License with Commons Clause. You can read every line, verify what it does, and suggest improvements.

Simple and focused — Linktastic does exactly one thing and does it well. No feature bloat, no upsells, no premium tiers.

Fast and light — No background network requests, no persistent storage, no impact on page load times.


PERMISSIONS EXPLAINED

Linktastic requests only the permissions it needs to function. Here is what each one does and why it is required:

• activeTab — Allows Linktastic to read the title and URL of the tab you are currently viewing, but only when you click the extension icon or use the keyboard shortcut. It cannot access your tabs in the background.

• scripting — Allows the extension to run the small content script that performs the clipboard copy operation on the current page. This is necessary because clipboard access requires running code in the context of a web page.

• clipboardWrite — Allows Linktastic to write the formatted link to your clipboard. Without this permission, the copy operation would fail.

• host_permissions (all URLs) — Required so the content script can run on any page you visit. Linktastic needs this to be available on every site, not just a limited set. The content script only activates when you explicitly trigger a copy — it does not read or modify page content on its own.


If you have questions, feedback, or want to contribute, visit the GitHub repository linked on this page.