Transforms an oft-times obscenely long URL into a much shorter, compact version
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URL shortener that supports link deletion / expiration?
I need to share a URL, but I want the link to be there for a week, after a week, I want the link to expire.
Do you know of such a service?
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How long will a TinyURL be available?
This is not a thread about if URL shortener are good or not, I'm just wondering how long such created TinyURL will be available? Is the given URL available "forever"?
If so - is there a way to ...
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Get a shortened (minimalist) link to a Google search
Sometimes, I want a shortened link to the results of a Google Search, to share in a comment on facebook or in a forum. A URL shortener (e.g., bit.ly) is not great, because the resulting Google Search ...
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Does the Twitter shortener (t.co) give the same code for the same link?
Or in another words: if I have two different links generated when shortening a Twitter message, does it surely mean that they point to two unique addresses?
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How can I track down t.co links?
When you enter a URL into a tweet, Twitter uses their own in house URL shortener on the t.co domain to turn it into something smaller and track usage.
My site has recently been Tweeted by somebody ...
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Url-shortening web-service inside a PHP aplication? [closed]
How can I use a url-shortening web-service inside a PHP application?
I need a PHP variable having the shortened-url of my full url.
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Joomla + Pinterest button url breaks
I try to use the pin button from pinterest in a website using joomla as cms, but the url is not translated correctly and breaks the url at the pint button
Eg.:
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How to add a website URL with space (%20) in a LinkedIn profile page under websites?
I am trying to add my weblink which has a white space, that is, %20 in it. When I add a website URL in a LinkedIn profile using the edit option, it shows no error. But when I click the link in my ...
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Anonymize a Google Search URL
If I search Google Images for mountains of madness lovecraft, I get something like this URL:
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Is it possible to find out *who* created a short Google URL (like goo.gl/something)?
I was wondering: is it possible for other people to find out who created a short goo.gl URL (that I created using my own Google account)? That is, can they trace it back to my Google account?
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URL shortener with reCAPTCHA protection [closed]
Is there a URL shortener that also places the target URL behind reCAPTCHA?
I do not mean like ow.ly which requires the user to pass reCAPTCHA before providing the shortened URL, but then provides ...
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Are Google Shortened URLs (goo.gl) Publicized, Sequential, or Secret?
Google has a shortening service at http://goo.gl/ which let's you convert a long URL to a short one. It says the following about the URLs it generates:
All goo.gl URLs and click analytics are ...
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Are short URLs permanent?
Do bit.ly and other URL shorteners reutilize unused short URLs? It seems the be so.
Is there any risk that an URL that is redirected to a certain page right now, be redirected to another page in the ...
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Why doesn't Twitter's URL shortening always work?
Recently when posting links I've found Twitter has no longer offered to automatically shorten URLs; they used to be shortened to a max of 20 characters just when I pasted them into the tweet box. Now ...
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How to avoid Twitter's URL shortening
I want to post an URL in Twitter, but I don't want it to be shortened - the domain is a 3 letter word so it doesn't even make sense to shorten it. However, when I am writing the tweet in the website I ...
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Is there any way to preview the URL of a t.co link on Twitter?
They've basically taken over the URL shortening game, but without offering the features the other shorteners do. For instance, http://is.gd allows you to set a setting which will show you the link ...
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Click statistics with Twitter's t.co URL shortener?
Now that Twitter automatically shortens urls with its t.co service, 3rd party services like bit.ly / j.mp have become somewhat superfluous (for Twitter use).
However, bit.ly provides nice click ...
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Is Google's new URL shortener service g.co already usable?
Some time ago, Google acquired the domain g.co as an URL shortener exclusively for its own services (e.g. Tech Crunch).
So far, I haven't seen it in use anywhere, and it would be very useful for long ...
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Setting a Google+ vanity URL like plus.google.com/me
Where can I set a vanity URL for my Google+ profile? Ideally I would like to be able to have my current profiles.google.com URL brought over in case Google decide the profiles are now valid for Google ...
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How to use Twitter's t.co service to shorten a URL
I like how the new t.co URLs show up as the destination instead of some cryptic value. Unfortunately Twitter hasn't built it into their default web based Twitter client. How do I shorten the URL with ...
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Sort all my j.mp links by most clicked
Is there any way I can get all of the links associated with my j.mp account and arrange them so that the links with the most clicks are at the top?
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A url shortener that lets me update the desitation url without changing the short url [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
URL shorteners or redirectors whose target links can be changed after it was made
Does anybody know of a url shortener, preferably with customizable names, where you can ...
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Make bit.ly use my own URL shortening service for pages on my site
I see that bit.ly have integrated with other URL shortening services to allow for custom domains in the short URL version.
E.g. When I shorten a URL from an article on TheNextWeb.com it gets ...
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How to convert Google Maps “My Maps” to an image?
I have found this excelent tool
My Maps -> Static Map Converter
Which does what I want, converting polygons, polylines and markers too.
But it has a limitation. It generates URLs so big that the ...
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Where are the Shrinkster short URL codes now?
Shrinkster.com has stated for a while: We'll be back soon! We are temporarily offline due to abuse by spammers. unless I just stumbled upon this temp message twice in the span of a year or so.
Does ...
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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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Do customized bit.ly links ever expire?
I'm about to send out "save the date" announcements for my wedding soon, and wanted to include a link to a our wedding page hosted on a popular planning site, theknot.com. The link options they gave ...
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goo.gl: no URL history
I've shortened and shared several URLs with goo.gl during the last few days. I'm logged in and have tested the URLs to work, but the URL history seems to remain empty, only showing:
No entries ...
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Case Insensitive URL Shorteners
Are there any case insensitive URL shorteners out there that have an API?
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URL Shortener that does mailto links and has tracking
Does anyone know of a URL shortening service that allows mailto links and has a tracking feature for those links?
It doesn't matter if you need to sign up for a paid account to do this.
I've found ...
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Offical Twitter iPhone App & Bit.Ly Pro
I have a bit.ly pro account with my own custom short domain setup.
Can anyone tell me how I can use my custom short domain as my custom URL shortner for the the Official Twitter App for iPhone?
I ...
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How can I use Goo.gl as my URL shortener in Twitter for iPhone (Tweetie)?
I've gone to Settings - > Services -> URL Shortening -> Custom. What do I enter as the "URL shortening endpoint"?
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Permanently delete a shortened link from bit.ly
I want to delete a shortened link from bit.ly that was created by me.
How can I do that?
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URL shortener that supports parameters?
So I was wondering if there was any URL shortening service that would allow (optional) parameters? So for example it would be something like this:
goo.gl/mv2j?state=NC
Which would translate into:
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How to avoid url encoding with bit.ly?
I am using bit.ly linked with my Twitter Account to write tweet directly from their web site.
Today I had the need to write an announce that mention a site name, TF2Maps.net in this case.
The ...
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How to search Twitter for tweets citing a blog post, correcting for URL shorteners?
Say I want to find all tweets that link to a particular blog post, such as this one, and considering that most tweets would actually use URL shorteners, is there a way to find those tweets, taking ...
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Is there any importance to the letter-case in bayimg URLs?
When I create an image using http://bayimg.com, I get a URL such as http://bayimg.com/NANmnAaCJ, and the image is hosted at http://image.bayimg.com/nanmnaacj.jpg.
I know that some URL shortening ...
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Bit.ly doesn't support OpenId, what URL shortener does?
Question inspired by this tweet:
bit.ly still doesn't support OpenID?
Any recommendations on a url shortener
that does?
http://twitter.com/jongalloway/status/17967007628
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What is the purpose of shortening URL services?
What is the purpose of shortening URL service?
Are shortening URL service related only to the fact that a single Twitter message has a small characters limits? Or does they have other uses?
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How can I be certain that a URL-shortened link I click isn't going to send me to a dangerous or unwanted site?
When I see a shortened URL, I'm always hesitant to click it because I don't know where the link is going to go. (In the worst case, it may lead to an XSS exploit against a site that I'm logged in to)
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URL shortening web services/web sites
Does it matter which URL shortening web service you use when shortening URLs? Why will one choose, say TinyUrl over any other?
And is their a lifespan for the shortened URL, will there be a guarantee ...
