Questions tagged [url-shortening]
Transforms an oft-times obscenely long URL into a much shorter, compact version
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Can't edit bit.ly destination url
I have Google drive pdf's shared link as the destination link for a bit.ly link. For some reasons I need to update the destination URL and I cannot find any destination link edit option on the ...
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How do I get a short URL for WeChat 公众号 posts?
I live in China and use WeChat to read 公众号 posts (kind of like a WeChat blog for companies, organizations, etc.). Their raw URLs are often of formidable length, such as
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?...
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gdURL permalinks no longer working
gdURL.com provides a free service where one can create direct permalinks for google drive files. I have used it for a few years now, and haven't had any issues.
Now, whenever I (or a third party) try ...
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Why does tinyurl produce 2 different links for the same URL?
https://tinyurl.com/yx33pj22
https://tinyurl.com/dskmjw8j
These two lines direct me to same page. Why does tinyurl produce 2 different links for the same URL?
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How to create multiple shortcuts of files from one folder?
Windows 10, mp4/mp3 files.
As well related question: how to/can shortcut change there's 'open from' direction based on original file changing its direction?
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Google Meet permanent room
When we start a meeting we get a meeting URL like meet.google.com/xxx-yyyy-zzz. Is there a way to get a customized and/or permanent meeting URL?
Even "customized" is an optional one, the requirement ...
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Twitter URL shortening not deterministic?
These two Twitter shortened URLs
https://t.co/A8taVSsehm
https://t.co/eA7EpUqmgJ
both refer to the same target URL:
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/audi-chef-rupert-stadler-...
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Short shareable URL for aliexpress item?
Are builtin short URL's to share an item available in aliexpress?
If so, what's the format?
(Something like eBay has /itm/xxxxxxx)
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Firebase Dynamic Link service -- I can't understand exactly what it's about [closed]
I read the news that Google has shut down his short linker service goo.gl and the fact that FDL APIs will be used instead. And I've watched a video about the matter. However, I still can't comprehend ...
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Can't email a link copied from Facebook
When I paste a very long URL to a Facebook group, it is no longer displayed in full. For example, https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/abskal271_N782HsnaksLK (link is made up) becomes https://drive....
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How to use Facebook pages shortcuts?
I have just created an user name for my page (AcridBlogsEN), so it is now accessibe under:
https://www.facebook.com/AcridBlogsEN
In a confirmation message Facebook told me that I can use:
fb.me/...
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What are some URL shorteners that use GET requests? [closed]
I've been writing a script that requires a link shortener in it. It runs locally, and Chrome can't use AJAX/JSON locally, so I need to be able to go to link.shortener/link-to.shorten and then it ...
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Link Windows installer through bit.ly?
I have released a Windows installer as open-source software (it is a well-known software with peer-reviewed article in scientific journal) and wanted to get some download metrics with bit.ly service, ...
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Using Google URL Shortener API in Google Sheets for bulk URL shortening
Recently come across similar issue to this question, where I want to add use the Google URL shortener API in Google Sheets for bulk URL shortening.
However, I keep running into this error:
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How does one find the http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=XXX for an MSDN page?
It seems that the go.microsoft.com shortlinks for Microsoft pages are best practice to link to.
How do I find the shortlink for a MSDN page, in my case specifically?:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-...
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Google Sheets Function to get a shortened URL (from Bit.ly or goo.gl etc.)
I have a Google spreadsheet that builds Google Analytics links. I'd like to shorten those links. I tried the Bit.ly example but even their example does not work.
How can I do this?
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Short link of a TechCrunch article
Where can I retrieve the short link on a TechCrunch article?
E.g. the article http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/03/citusdb-releases-an-open-source-postgresql-tool-that-promises-better-database-...
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Short url for Google News and Google Videos
On some occasions you want to provide some particular Google Search. You could simply copy the link from your browser's address bar, which often gives a very long link containing a lot of redundant ...
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How can I find out what a goo.gl URL leads to, without visiting it?
goo.gl allows us to shorten URLs. For example, http://goo.gl/Y5VIoG will link to http://google.com
How can we determine what URL the goo.gl link points to without actually visiting it?
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URL shortener with counter and/or stats [closed]
Is there any free URL shortener that supports counting? And maybe some logging? If possible, without any registration. As simple as tinyurl.com if possible.
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URL Shortener that forwards GET Query Strings [closed]
I want to create a small URL like goo.gl/xpto but I need it to forward the query string back to the original URL:
goo.gl/xpto?foo=bar => example.com?foo=bar
Which URL shortners do this nowadays?
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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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Anonymize a Google Search URL
If I search Google Images for mountains of madness lovecraft, I get something like this URL:
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1019&bih=805&q=mountains+...
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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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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 you'...
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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 [duplicate]
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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Short URL services not working properly
any idea why short URL services fail very often?
Mozilla shows a "Problem loading page" error page:
Server not found. Firefox can't find the server at www.t.co.
This is especially true for t.co for ...
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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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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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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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Offical Twitter iPhone App & Bit.Ly Pro [closed]
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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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 mentions a site name, TF2Maps.net.
The problem is that bit....
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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? [closed]
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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