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Lengthen My URL
- swombat 16y agohttp://www.lengthenmyurl.com/urls/c8b23684df9a50a093cc1baa53dd272da60625eb55aba8fda1f709eca7948ef670824e6cf74238f284907d/info http://www.lengthenmyurl.com/urls/c8b23684df9a50a093cc1baa53... So basically, it's a URL obfuscator?
- keefe 16y agojust like the shorteners except it's longer and stuff which is better for some reason.
- 9ec4c12949a4f3 16y agoBut it doesn't always lengthen a URI if this is the case.
- ahemphill 16y agoI thought this would get the original address of a shortened URL. That would actually be useful.
- wccrawford 16y agolately I've been annoyed by how Google's feeds often use their own feedproxy, so when I copy the link from within Reader, I end up with a link my friend can't use. (They never work for him.) And most of them have a forever-long url that they expand to, also. Some way to convert the url quickly and easily to it's final form, stripped of all the BS, would be welcome. Sadly, this service isn't that.
- wave 16y agoYou can get the original URL using http://unshort.me http://unshort.me service.
- ahemphill 16y ago… And they have an API! Brilliant. Thank you VERY much for pointing that out.
- theli0nheart 16y agoSomeone mentioned unshort.me, but I created one a few months back for an internal project. http://www.delinkify.com/ http://www.delinkify.com/ It has an API too, which is ridiculously simple: curl "http://www.delinkify.com/api/unravel/?links=http://on.wsj.com/aGFmsK,http://cl.ly/2ZY4" ["http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703694204575518222145769804.html?mod=e2tw", "http:\/\/seldo.com\/weblog\/2010\/09\/27\/php_needs_to_die_what_will_replace_it"]
- Groxx 16y agohttp://longurl.org/ http://longurl.org/
- 1amzave 16y agoOn a somewhat related note: http://www.urlshorteningservicefortwitter.com/ http://www.urlshorteningservicefortwitter.com/
- thesystemis 16y agowas reminded of something on a similar note, shadyurl (http://shadyurl.com http://shadyurl.com). "don't just shorten your url, make it suspicious and frightening..." it generates similarly ridiculous urls like: http://5z8.info/michaelangelo-virus_l6h3k_openme.exe http://5z8.info/michaelangelo-virus_l6h3k_openme.exe and this project compresses files by making them much, much bigger: http://tac-compression.com/ http://tac-compression.com/
- JunkDNA 16y agoThanks for that... I had not seen shadyurl.com. I might start using it to see how many people notice.
- zootm 16y agoI think that http://hugeurl.com/ http://hugeurl.com/ probably has first dibs on this joke by a couple of years.
- ninh 16y agoAh, hugeurl makes the links too long for tweets though, and also it doesn't have an API like this one does! ;)
- zootm 16y agoWhat we need is an API which lets us somehow shorten our hugeurls...
- moeffju 16y agoI don't know since when hugeurl is around, but I built http://maul.ubermutant.net/ http://maul.ubermutant.net/ in 2004 as a joke on TinyURL, without knowing hugeurl or anything like it. Surprisingly, it seems to still work ;)
- zootm 16y agoNice, I wasn't aware of that one!
- 9ec4c12949a4f3 16y agoAlready broke the thing http://www.lengthenmyurl.com/urls/8b1e05cf137bcef910c5e7ece6305001362604aa5abbdbef62fde73d5d8767cfc3baeec5942386b9ce294d19b977851ab454c0c9906e5e362ce0dad6fe51e0906d7b1762c5dc8c1ddb6c25050773825573ce162a4d2818fd3666b47df49311aa8bf29d59b25d97bac29caeb8cd1595 http://www.lengthenmyurl.com/urls/8b1e05cf137bcef910c5e7ece6... has been lengthened to http://www.lengthenmyurl.com/urls/3be99802c526ca7d9e6aa00384f0e5504e6211bb496cae8c082f3b234cf697886970e1b5ab5b17eea7e48a http://www.lengthenmyurl.com/urls/3be99802c526ca7d9e6aa00384... 256 -> 120 :).
- ninh 16y agoNice catch indeed, we'll fix that... eventually ;)
- steveklabnik 16y agoI prefer http://dickensurl.com/ http://dickensurl.com/ Sounds NSFW, they should have prefixed it with "Charles."
- markkat 16y agoShould be: http://doyouwantyoururltobelongerwellwecandothatforyouhere.com http://doyouwantyoururltobelongerwellwecandothatforyouhere.c...
- utexaspunk 16y agoDoesn't seem to be taken...