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Any suggestions for a link UNshortener? (fedia.io)

submitted 4 hours ago by jherazob@fedia.io to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Checking for this, i see that the only one was the old unshort.link, but the repo was discontinued

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[–] antsu@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

I understand this is not exactly what you're asking for, but if you have access to a terminal, you can "unshorten" a link with:

curl --head -L https://example.com/short | grep: location

[–] jherazob@fedia.io 3 points 2 hours ago

It is not enough for the increasingly common share.google links for example, and i bet there's more like this

[–] DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 hours ago

Very much this.

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 hours ago

It's a little complicated. Sometimes the curl command further up works, but sometimes the redirection is done in an html meta tag or even with javascript. I have a messy python script that has a bunch of site specific code to bypass redirects and clean up tracking links. I can't post it in its present condition (it has some private info embedded) but I've been wanting to clean it up and post it sometime.

[–] EndOfLine@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I've not used it, but your question got me wondering so I searched and found the following site which tries to navigate various redirect methods to find the final destination. I'd be curious to know how well it works.

https://www.redirect-checker.org/

[–] jherazob@fedia.io 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I was hoping for a self-hosted resource, not a remote API, since this is the Selfhosted community

[–] EndOfLine@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Whoops, my mistake. I did not check where this was posted. Sorry about that.