Long URL Please: un-shorten URLs to their original URLs

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Posted in » Firefox - by Ades on May 5th, 2009

Everything has advantages and disadvantages, and that is true with URL shortening services too. There are times you just wish if you had an eye that can see through these short URLs and see the destination URLs. This is especially true when you are viewing suspicious blogs or websites with short URLs in them. Personally I avoid clicking any suspicious short URLs.

Short URL services were popularized by Twitter due to its limited characters in ‘tweets’.

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Long URL Please

Fortunately, there is always a solution for a problem. Long URL Please converts these short URLs into their original destination URLs. For firefox users here is the plugin, for other browsers (including firefox) you can use the bookmarklet (drag the link to your bookmarks toolbar).

To see the real URLs, just click the bookmarklet while you are on the page that has short URLs on them.

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And it will display the original links instead of the short URLs.

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Long URL Please currently supports 64 URL shortening services. So it pretty much covers all your favorite URL shortening services.

Website: www.longurlplease.com/
Firefox Add-On: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9549?version=0.4.0

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31 Responses to “Long URL Please: un-shorten URLs to their original URLs”

  1. By make money online on May 5, 2009

    Is that the guy from problogger using an url shortening service to trick us?? Dang, I knew he wasn’t clean, that mr. darren rowse. I’ll get ya one day darren

  2. By eyeman on May 5, 2009

    hoho. cool. so, i can know what kind of site of many short url.

  3. By web design india on May 5, 2009

    Hey, this truly is excellent. I too avoid clicking on too short url’s.

  4. By CSS web design finder on May 5, 2009

    Great tool! Thanks for sharing

  5. By China Travel Service on May 5, 2009

    This is really great tool! I always wonder why people use tiny url, initially I thought it is just phishing sites which I should ignore but later I found some of them not, but still reluctant to visit those site even I know some of them should be good. This tool can at least let me see the real domain. Thanks.

  6. By cdl test on May 6, 2009

    excellent. everything else i was looking into to do this was just hacks.

  7. By Get 3 Quotes | 3Q on May 6, 2009

    You have to love FireFox, everything integrates so well! Tiny URL’s ain’t a favourite of mine either, so I am definitely downloading this plugin from longurlplease.

  8. By SharonHill on May 6, 2009

    Will it work for URLs shortened through http://aafter.us/?

    Regards,
    SharonHill

  9. By Web Design on May 6, 2009

    Really Nice Tool. Thanks For Sharing The Tool.

  10. By solar panels on May 6, 2009

    I like this tool.It makes my browser better organized.

  11. By Best Teeth Whitening on May 7, 2009

    I guess if you look hard enough, you can find a tool to do just about anything online. Thanks for the info.

  12. By Ades on May 8, 2009

    @make money online, no he is not. it’s just a twitter example to show how the tool works.

  13. By iPhone on May 9, 2009

    I have to agree, it’s so annoying seeing twitpic.com, I want to see what image im actually going to be looking at!!

  14. By titan on May 9, 2009

    hoho. now i can check that weird url too.

  15. By Tania on May 9, 2009

    this is very interesting tool. thanks for sharing the it with us.

  16. By Budzer on May 11, 2009

    Nice tool ades,thanks

  17. By custom bowling ball on May 13, 2009

    thanks for bringing this Firefox plugin to our attention. I share the same concerns with you about these suspicious short url. Not anymore though:)

  18. By Gede on May 13, 2009

    Wow…. Nice Tools. and we can see the real URL not the masking. thanks

  19. By Marisha Adams on May 13, 2009

    That’s a great tool. I don’t know these problems exist and someone comes up with the solutions!

  20. By Xbox 360 on May 14, 2009

    Nice to see it annoys someone else.
    It makes me constantly hesitant to click tweets with links in them

  21. By ohmelayu | melayu boleh on May 18, 2009

    cool. i like this way.

  22. By Patios gold coast on May 19, 2009

    You are right that every thing has advantage add disadvantage and your thinking on this topic is really good why people use tinny URL’s. I agree with u. Thanks to share it.

  23. By Ghazal Alvi on May 19, 2009

    Nice piece of information Abdylas!

    Thanks for sharing.

  24. By abrablog on May 22, 2009

    so, i cannot know that original url now.

  25. By Healthcare information on May 24, 2009

    I want the online storage service to accept a URL as a pointer to a file (rather than uploading the file), then “acquire the file” from this URL location, so that I can download the file later by logging it into the online storage account.

  26. By Laptop Reviews on May 24, 2009

    I never knew there was a reverse technique to see the actual links. and you busted some pros! :)

  27. By zawzal on May 28, 2009

    seems like i can use it for my new project. I believe it will interesting stuff.

  28. By iMac on Jun 1, 2009

    That is pretty cool, but i tend to avoid anything Twitter, im still yet to understand its actual use.

  29. By Online TV on Jul 19, 2009

    This plugin is very good in preventing spam. Now people will not click on links that looks to them suspicious.

  30. By Karaoke hire on Jul 20, 2009

    I am also would like to say that its too good man. Its very useful tool.

  31. By DSL on Aug 25, 2009

    That is an awesome plug in! I am glad I am searching threw your archives. I have find a few new gems of knowledge a day!


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