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was reminded of something on a similar note, shadyurl (http://shadyurl.com). "don't just shorten your url, make it suspicious and frightening..."

it generates similarly ridiculous urls like:

http://5z8.info/michaelangelo-virus_l6h3k_openme.exe

and this project compresses files by making them much, much bigger:

http://tac-compression.com/

Thanks for that... I had not seen shadyurl.com. I might start using it to see how many people notice.

I think that http://hugeurl.com/ probably has first dibs on this joke by a couple of years.

Ah, hugeurl makes the links too long for tweets though, and also it doesn't have an API like this one does! ;)

What we need is an API which lets us somehow shorten our hugeurls...

I don't know since when hugeurl is around, but I built http://maul.ubermutant.net/ in 2004 as a joke on TinyURL, without knowing hugeurl or anything like it. Surprisingly, it seems to still work ;)

Nice, I wasn't aware of that one!

Should be: http://doyouwantyoururltobelongerwellwecandothatforyouhere.c...

Doesn't seem to be taken...

I thought this would get the original address of a shortened URL. That would actually be useful.

Someone mentioned unshort.me, but I created one a few months back for an internal project.

http://www.delinkify.com/

It has an API too, which is ridiculously simple:

    curl "http://www.delinkify.com/api/unravel/?links=http://on.wsj.com/aGFmsK,http://cl.ly/2ZY4"
    ["http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703694204575518222145769804.html?mod=e2tw", "http:\/\/seldo.com\/weblog\/2010\/09\/27\/php_needs_to_die_what_will_replace_it"]

lately I've been annoyed by how Google's feeds often use their own feedproxy, so when I copy the link from within Reader, I end up with a link my friend can't use. (They never work for him.) And most of them have a forever-long url that they expand to, also. Some way to convert the url quickly and easily to it's final form, stripped of all the BS, would be welcome.

Sadly, this service isn't that.

You can get the original URL using http://unshort.me service.

… And they have an API! Brilliant. Thank you VERY much for pointing that out.

http://longurl.org/

I prefer http://dickensurl.com/

Sounds NSFW, they should have prefixed it with "Charles."

http://www.lengthenmyurl.com/urls/c8b23684df9a50a093cc1baa53...

So basically, it's a URL obfuscator?

just like the shorteners except it's longer and stuff which is better for some reason.

But it doesn't always lengthen a URI if this is the case.

On a somewhat related note:

http://www.urlshorteningservicefortwitter.com/