Lengthen My URL

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by acangiano • 16 years ago

25 22 16 years ago

lengthenmyurl.com

swombat• 16 years ago

http://www.lengthenmyurl.com/urls/c8b23684df9a50a093cc1baa53...

So basically, it's a URL obfuscator?

keefe• 16 years ago

just like the shorteners except it's longer and stuff which is better for some reason.

9ec4c12949a4f32• 16 years ago

But it doesn't always lengthen a URI if this is the case.

ahemphill2• 16 years ago

I thought this would get the original address of a shortened URL. That would actually be useful.

wccrawford• 16 years ago

lately I've been annoyed by how Google's feeds often use their own feedproxy, so when I copy the link from within Reader, I end up with a link my friend can't use. (They never work for him.) And most of them have a forever-long url that they expand to, also. Some way to convert the url quickly and easily to it's final form, stripped of all the BS, would be welcome.

Sadly, this service isn't that.

wave• 16 years ago

You can get the original URL using http://unshort.me service.

ahemphill2• 16 years ago

… And they have an API! Brilliant. Thank you VERY much for pointing that out.

theli0nheart• 16 years ago

Someone mentioned unshort.me, but I created one a few months back for an internal project.

http://www.delinkify.com/

It has an API too, which is ridiculously simple:

    curl "http://www.delinkify.com/api/unravel/?links=http://on.wsj.com/aGFmsK,http://cl.ly/2ZY4"
    ["http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703694204575518222145769804.html?mod=e2tw", "http:\/\/seldo.com\/weblog\/2010\/09\/27\/php_needs_to_die_what_will_replace_it"]

Groxx• 16 years ago

http://longurl.org/

1amzave• 16 years ago

On a somewhat related note:

http://www.urlshorteningservicefortwitter.com/

thesystemis• 16 years ago

was reminded of something on a similar note, shadyurl (http://shadyurl.com). "don't just shorten your url, make it suspicious and frightening..."

it generates similarly ridiculous urls like:

http://5z8.info/michaelangelo-virus_l6h3k_openme.exe

and this project compresses files by making them much, much bigger:

http://tac-compression.com/

JunkDNA• 16 years ago

Thanks for that... I had not seen shadyurl.com. I might start using it to see how many people notice.

zootm3• 16 years ago

I think that http://hugeurl.com/ probably has first dibs on this joke by a couple of years.

ninh2• 16 years ago

Ah, hugeurl makes the links too long for tweets though, and also it doesn't have an API like this one does! ;)

zootm3• 16 years ago

What we need is an API which lets us somehow shorten our hugeurls...

moeffju• 16 years ago

I don't know since when hugeurl is around, but I built http://maul.ubermutant.net/ in 2004 as a joke on TinyURL, without knowing hugeurl or anything like it. Surprisingly, it seems to still work ;)

zootm3• 16 years ago

Nice, I wasn't aware of that one!

9ec4c12949a4f32• 16 years ago

Already broke the thing

http://www.lengthenmyurl.com/urls/8b1e05cf137bcef910c5e7ece6...

has been lengthened to

http://www.lengthenmyurl.com/urls/3be99802c526ca7d9e6aa00384...

256 -> 120 :).

ninh2• 16 years ago

Nice catch indeed, we'll fix that... eventually ;)

steveklabnik• 16 years ago

I prefer http://dickensurl.com/