Any suggestions for a link UNshortener?

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• antsu@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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

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  • jherazob@fedia.io ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Very much this.

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• solrize@lemmy.ml ⁨19⁩ ⁨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.

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• EndOfLine@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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

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  • jherazob@fedia.io ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • EndOfLine@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• v3ritas@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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

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• jcolag@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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