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Sean Murphy set one of Sean Murphy's replies as an official response to "List of libraries which can talk to longurl.org" in Statiksoft, LLC

Sean Murphy set one of Sean Murphy's replies as an official response to "Adding support for sn.im (one of Snipurl's hostnames)" in Statiksoft, LLC

Sean Murphy replied on February 19, 2009 16:40 to the idea "Adding support for sn.im (one of Snipurl's hostnames)" in Statiksoft, LLC:

Thanks Steve, I've add that domain to the list (along with several others) and push the update to production. I could be a while before you notice the change though.

Sean Murphy shared an idea in holzhauer.it on February 12, 2009 18:43:

Support more shortening services

Have you thought about using a service like LongURL.org to support more shortening services?

Sean Murphy set one of Sean Murphy's replies as an official response to "The GreaseMonkey script can't support http://ff.im/-rypB." in Statiksoft, LLC

Sean Murphy replied on January 09, 2009 21:41 to the question "The GreaseMonkey script can't support http://ff.im/-rypB." in Statiksoft, LLC:

ff.im has been added to our list of known shortening services. The Greasemonkey script will now expand those URLs once you're cached list of shortening services is updated.

Sean Murphy replied on November 21, 2008 18:25 to the question "How come the website works with tr.im but not the userscript?" in Statiksoft, LLC:

gd, I'm not having any trouble with the userscript. I just tested it on this page http://search.twitter.com/search?q=tr.im which worked fine.

Are there any other shortening services you're having trouble expanding with the userscript?

The userscript uses a cached list of known shortening services to determine which links on a page should be expandable. To manually update that cached list you can either uninstall (checking "Also uninstall associated preferences") then reinstall, or visit about:config, filter by "longurl_expire_services", and set the value to a blank string. The next time you load a web page it will update the list of known services.

Sean Murphy set one of Sean Murphy's replies as an official response to "Firefox Add-on Corrupted?" in Statiksoft, LLC

Sean Murphy replied on October 27, 2008 00:41 to the problem "Firefox Add-on Corrupted?" in Statiksoft, LLC:

Tapsa,

I'm not sure what causes this to happen, but the suggestions in this post have helped others: http://cybernetnews.com/2008/07/05/in...

Sean Murphy replied on October 25, 2008 23:01 to the idea "Add detection abilities for http://zi.ma urls" in Statiksoft, LLC:

Thanks John, I'll be sure to add it to the list.

A comment on the idea "Enhancement Request - Expand Shortened URLs" in Twitter:

Haha, I already have. Check out http://longurl.org/tools – Sean Murphy, on October 23, 2008 18:15

Sean Murphy replied on October 22, 2008 16:14 to the idea "Enhancement Request - Expand Shortened URLs" in Twitter:

I agree, it'd be nice to see this feature site-wide. It would also be nice to be able to expand all shortened URLs.

I wrote a web service API that makes this easy (http://longurl.org) and even a jQuery plugin that mimics the Twitter Search functionality (http://longurl.org/static/jquery_demo...).

However Twitter decides to do it, it'd be a welcome addition to the UI.

Sean Murphy replied on October 07, 2008 03:17 to the discussion "sURL Lookup (simplified for developers)" in Statiksoft, LLC:

Cool! That's always a good thing to provide.

LongURL actually doesn't use APIs anymore to determine where a short URL redirects to. It doesn't use HTML parsing either. Instead it examines response headers and looks for the "Location: ..." header. Thanks for sharing though!

A comment on the problem "TinyURL expansion userscript not working" in Fluid:

Hmm...I just tried it out with that userstyle and the Twitter Reloaded userscript, and it worked fine for me. Any chance there's something else interfering? Anyway, I'm glad you like it. – Sean Murphy, on September 18, 2008 14:46

Sean Murphy replied on September 18, 2008 03:52 to the problem "TinyURL expansion userscript not working" in Fluid:

Chris,

I just happened to come across your issue here. Until I saw that you were having problems I hadn't tested the userscript in Fluid.

I finagled my way around the Greasekit/Greasemonkey inconsistencies, and got it working for me in Fluid.

Give it a go if you'd like, and let me know if you have any more problems.

Next time you should try commenting on the userscript page too :-)

Oh, and just FYI, LongURL Mobile Expander doesn't interfere with title attributes because it uses it's own Javascript tooltip which provides a better user experience.

Cheers!

Sean

Sean Murphy replied on August 19, 2008 16:16 to the idea "I want to see the real URL before clicking a tinyURL" in Seesmic:

Hey, I just launched a standard web service API for expanding shortened URLs. It supports many shortening services (more to come) and should make it easier for the Twhirl developers to implement a preview feature. It's called LongURL (http://longurl.org). Check it out!

Cheers!

Sean Murphy