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I thought this would get the original address of a shortened URL. That would actually be useful.
by ahemphill 16y ago
I 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/