blogSetomits

I have approached the problem a little differently. Check out a proposal i just wrote up:

http://sites.google.com/a/snaplog.com/wiki/short_url_hints

I would like to hear your thoughts.

r.S.

Hi Robert,

I read your proposal and felt that it might be useful for some situations.
I have thought about the problem for a couple days.
There are several services to shoten URLs and their shortened URLs. I think it is good for us to have options which service we use.

Anyway, it may be good for us that there is only one canonical URL. So it might be helpful to use META with rel="canonical" proposed at Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Specify your canonical.

Thank you.

Does not seem to work with Greasemonkey using FF2 (v2.0.0.14 to be exact) but I appreciate the script nonetheless.

Hi skeeball,
Thank you for your report.
This script uses some Greasemonkey APIs like GM_setValue, GM_getValue, GM_log and GM_xmlhttpRequest, so the version of Greasemonkey might concern with your problem.
I'm not sure whether I try to solve it or not, but could you let me know the version?

Thanks.

linkbee.com sometimes by some url's dont encode. Is it possible to make it more compatible?

Hi user1,
I will check it, so please wait for a while.
Thank you.

The script doesn't work with query parameters like http://bit.ly/abcdef?foo=1=2
Please consider the following chages which work for me:

    function request_for(a) {
	var a_href = a.href;
	if (a_href.indexOf('?') > 0) {
		a_href = a_href.substring(0, a_href.indexOf('?'));
	}

then use a_href instead of a.href in the complete request_for function and

		    onload: function(resp) {
			finalUrl = extract_from_response(resp);
			if (_node.href.indexOf('?') > 0) {
				finalUrl = finalUrl + _node.href.substring(_node.href.indexOf('?'));
			}
			if (finalUrl) {

Thanks & Regards,
Andreas

Could u add support for this plz?

Thanx a lot!!
Nice script

Hi, thank you for your request.
I added TheCow in supported.
Enjoy it!

UpDate http://UIOP.ME WebSite (NEW Version)
http://www.hleraweb.xpg.com.br/twitter/Tweets-URL-Decoder-v1-Beta[By-BGyn].zip
From: @BGyn

Any plans for support for ht.ly? It's the same as ow.ly so should be easy to implement. ;)

Hi TW,

I just don't know the service.
I will support it.

Anyway, it looks good for me to use auto update scheme or such kind of things.

Thank you for the script. Twitter should do this by default.

Please can you add support for t.co and goog.gl?

Hi Iain,

Thank you for your comment.
I added t.co and checked the script after a long time.
Now lots of services are not run right now, and deleted them to be supported. Please reinstall it from http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/40582.

Anyway, that script looks work with goo.gl. If you have know any tweet URLs on which goo.gl are not decoded, please let me know.

Actually saying, I don't use the script any more. New Twitter UI decode the shortened URLs, and I basically use Mac app version. So I don't notice if the script works or not.

The new Twitter UI does not decode them for me? I just checked in Chrome on Windows 7.

Anyway, thanks for listening. :o)

Problems Where Target URL's contain "&"

function decode_shortened_url(_node) {
if (cache[_node.href]) {
/* cache[_node.href] = cache[_node.href].replace('&', '&'); */
if (GM_getValue('keep_text') === true) {

Please add the commented line, as it does not replace & in target URL

Can you add the support for youtu.be?

Thanks.

Hi Jatin,

When we talk about entity references on HTML based system, it should be complicated.
Could you email me?
If you have some examples which are not decoded well, please contain them.
My email address is setomits at gmail dot com.

Unfortunately, I will not support youtu.be.
I started developing this Grease Monkey script because I hated that I have no idea where shortened URLs bring me unless I click them.

In the other hand, the youtu.be URLs must bring us to YouTube, right? It's the reason why I wont.