Feature: Add unshorten.me API key

TrianguloY / UrlChecker

Android app by TrianguloY: URLCheck

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Feature: Add unshorten.me API key #298

Open sm4rk0 opened 11 months ago

sm4rk0 commented 11 months ago

Hi and thank you for this helpful app!

I'd like to suggest adding the possibility to add our own unshorten.me API key because it looks like unshorten.me doesn't allow anonymous requests anymore:

curl https://unshorten.me/json/https://bit.ly/asd
{
    "requested_url": "https://bit.ly/asd",
    "success": false,
    "resolved_url": "",
    "error": "Authentication Error"
}

Thanks in advance!

sm4rk0 commented 11 months ago

...another issue, on the unshorten.me side is that you can't register at the moment because you get Error 500 on submitting the signup form.

TrianguloY commented 11 months ago

Yup, it's currently broken, which is not good.

I'll also try to test other providers as suggested here https://github.com/TrianguloY/UrlChecker/issues/160#issuecomment-1704607447

c24w commented 11 months ago

Does a third party service provide more functionality than making a request directly to the URL and reading the Location response header?

Edit: I think I see the difference. Only HTTP redirects which are masking the real destination should be unwrapped; others, like redirects to a log in page, shouldn't. Still, it could be a simpler option.

itssoap commented 10 months ago

Adding to the comment made by @/c24w, I use the Check Status button in the "Status code" module. If they are not resolved by this:

A simple location grab from curl will work

For complex shorteners which have ads enabled and requires multiple clicks (ex. adf.ly, ouo.io), FastForward extension works pretty well:

https://fastforward.team/bypass-checker

But I don't think their database is public