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And if you put the URL into a URL shortener, you can (ab)use it as cloud storage for your spreadsheet. I once did some checks and found at least one shortener

And if you put the URL into a URL shortener, you can (ab)use it as cloud storage for your spreadsheet. I once did some checks and found at least one shortener could store a URL string of at least 65KB [1]. That was in 2009. Not sure where those shortener limits are all at today - I suspect the industry dynamics changed when Twitter introduced its built-in shortener. 1. https://softwareas.com/the-url-shortener-as-a-cloud-database/ https://softwareas.com/the-url-shortener-as-a-cloud-database...

jstrieb 5y ago
The limits are definitely shorter now. I also checked when I created URL Pages [0], which hosts entire web pages in the URL. However there is a link shortener that is quietly hosted by GitHub called https://git.io https://git.io that doesn't seem to have a length limit as far as I've discovered. [1] 0: https://github.com/jstrieb/urlpages https://github.com/jstrieb/urlpages 1: https://jstrieb.github.io/posts/git-io https://jstrieb.github.io/posts/git-io