Top "Url-shortener" questions

URL shortening is a technique in which a URL may be made substantially shorter in length and still direct to the required page.

How do short URLs services work?

How do services like TinyURL or Metamark work? Do they simply associate the tiny URL key with a [virtual?] web …

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Cloud Functions for Firebase: 'Error: could not handle the request'

I feel like pulling my hair out; this is either super simple and i'm having brain freeze or it is …

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jQuery on the fly URL shortener

I'm looking for an on the fly URL shortener much like how tweetdeck works. I have found many jQuery and …

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I have a WPF (.NET 4) project using google url shortener API, I have installed the client library through nugget https://…

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YouTube-like GUID

Is it possible to generate short GUID like in YouTube (N7Et6c9nL9w)? How can it be done? …

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how to get query parameter in lua or nginx?

I am trying to implement this- https://gist.github.com/MendelGusmao/2356310 Lua,nginx based URL shortener,The only change i …

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How does a URL Shortener work?

I wonder how a URL Shortener works, like how they extract the text from address bar and map it to …

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URL shortening algorithm

Now, this is not strictly about URL shortening, but my purpose is such anyway, so let's view it like that. …

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Using Only Javascript To Shrink URLs Using The Bit.ly API

I'm playing a bit with Javascript these days... I was shrinking some URLs using bit.ly to tweet them, then …

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Find where a t.co link goes to

Given a t.co link, how can I find see where the link resolves? For example, if I have t.…

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