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Validate long urls before shortening #18

Open sameshl opened 4 years ago

sameshl commented 4 years ago

If a user tries to shorten a URL to a website which may be along the lines of scam/phishing, etc using ShortMe, Google blocks our website(bp-gc.in) for phishing.

We need to check for any kind such behaviour for any website before we shorten it.

We need to explore any APIs which might add these flagging feature for us.

Aviral09 commented 4 years ago

https://developers.google.com/safe-browsing/v4 This article documents some Safe browsing APIs offered by google. Our purpose can be solved by Lookup API.

sameshl commented 4 years ago

https://developers.google.com/safe-browsing/v4 This article documents some Safe browsing APIs offered by google. Our purpose can be solved by Lookup API.

Yes, this looks right. You can start with this issue if you like

Aviral09 commented 4 years ago

To work on this further I would need api key generated through the official google developer account for this project.

sameshl commented 4 years ago

Hmm, okay.

Is it possible for you to test locally with your own google account and write the relevant code?

In the end, we could just change the api key.

I don't see any hard dependency on the linked google developer account for this project for this to work locally for you.

Aviral09 commented 4 years ago

Yeah that can be done. I'll try it out.