Any suggestions for a link UNshortener?
from jherazob@fedia.io to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 14:43
https://fedia.io/m/selfhosted@lemmy.world/t/2724984

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 on 17 Sep 14:51 next collapse

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

DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works on 17 Sep 14:54 next collapse

Very much this.

jherazob@fedia.io on 17 Sep 16:18 collapse

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

solrize@lemmy.ml on 17 Sep 15:23 next collapse

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 on 17 Sep 15:53 next collapse

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.

www.redirect-checker.org

jherazob@fedia.io on 17 Sep 16:19 collapse

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

EndOfLine@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 16:49 collapse

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

jcolag@lemmy.sdf.org on 17 Sep 20:43 next collapse

I developed this script for creating permanent/static archives of social media exports, so it’s not a full solution - not a web service, expects file inputs, uses a probably incomplete list of shorteners to avoid pulling real pages - but it along with the shorteners.txt file in the same repository, iterating to find a domain not on the list, might at least inspire a solution, if it’s not good for your specific cases.

v3ritas@infosec.pub on 18 Sep 01:24 collapse

I’m sure there are better alternatives (going to look at some of the other suggestions here), but I usually just drop the link into www.expandurl.net