Questions tagged [url-shortening]
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In a website, when clicking an URL in it, it will open a new tab and inject a redirect. How to view the URL redirect trace in browser?
When I click a non-Facebook link in Facebook, it will be opened in new tab and be redirected to:
https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fexample-url-shortener.com%2Fslug%3Ffbclid%3D...&h=...&...
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Where can I see the list of custom URL shortcuts and the URLs each shortcut maps to in Google Chrome?
I have noticed that my Google Chrome, if I type li in the address bar, it'll display http://li.mit.edu/'s content minus the images:
li:
http://li.mit.edu/:
Where can I see the list of custom URL ...
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Is there a system to how the short URLs (such as by goo.gl) should be read?
Google's web site goo.gl (and other websites) provides a means to create shortened forms of URLs. One example of how these look like is shown below.
A problem is that it is sometimes difficult to ...
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Shortening an URL and Sharing it on Twitter with a Keyboard Shortcut on Firefox/Chrome [closed]
Say I am on a given website, I would like to, with a keyboard shortcut, shorten the link (e.g. using BitLy or some other URL shortening service), and then have a small dialog window open where I can ...
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Linkbucks Adware on Goo.gl links
I have created a goo.gl shortlink for my app page, so that I can know how many times the link is clicked from my page. I checked the link when I created it, and it worked fine.
Now when I checked it ...
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Can I unshorten URLs sent to me before visiting them?
I often get sent URLs on Twitter when I have Tweets that are retweeted a lot.
Naturally, I suspect Malware behind them, but is there any way to actually check the URL before you visit the page? By ...
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URL shorteners or redirectors whose target links can be changed after it was made
Are there any URL shorteners or redirectors whose target links can be changed by its creator after it was made?
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Is there a way to see the final page address in the url preview?
Usually when you hover cursor above a url, the link hint appears in the lower left/right corner of the browser window. These days people use link shorteners which don't allow to see what the target ...
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Create custom url shortcuts in Chrome?
I want to create custom URL shortcuts in Chrome, such that hitting 'foo' in the omni/address bar will be the equivalent of hitting 'http://bar.com'.
How can I do this?
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How would I resolve a large batch of redirect URLs?
I have a .csv file will 1000s of aliased/shortened links (such as bit.ly etc.). I need to find out where they redirect to. Is there a simple program that could complete this task?
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How to get multiple URL redirection details?
I have some affiliated links, by clicking the link it redirects to another link. It might be up to three levels.
abc.com/?affid=12/www.xyx.com -->
xyz.com?ref=23 -->
and finally shopsomething....
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How can I create shorter URLs to sites on my computer?
I was wondering if I could use my Windows 7 hosts file to create shorter URLs for sites? OR is there another way. I tried ones like the following but I'm guessing it only works with IP Addresses?
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Copy title attribute from <a title=...> to clipboard in Chrome
On Twitter, users use short URLs (ie: http://t.co/DPbRAjVM).
The title attribute of the <a href="..." title="..."> tag is the actual URL.
Is there a Chrome extension that you can use to copy ...
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How can I make shortcut text for long URLs in Firefox and Chrome?
How can I make shortcut text for long URLs in Firefox and Chrome?
For example, I want to open http://gmail.com simply by typing mail in the browser.
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Using goo.gl url shortener with oauth on command line
I am wondering if anybody came up with a command line tool that allow to shorten a url with goo.gl service via Oauth authentication.
I am aware of solutions like this which allow shortening url with ...
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