URL Deshortify

Tired of suspicious shortened URLs? With URL Deshortify you can inspect any endpoint, figure out where it is leading you and if it's safe. Deshortify will:

find out where the shortened URL is really leading you
figure out if the landing page is protected with HTTPS
doublecheck the website certificate and assert its validity

Try it out!

Example usage

Let's take a shortened url like https://bit.ly/3pkH5T9. Where is it pointing to? Just make a request!

curl -X GET https://some-endpoint.deshortify.com/inspect?url=https://bit.ly/3pkH5T9

and you get:

{
  "target_url":"https://github.com/Ipanov7/deshortify-docs"
  "is_tls":true
  "is_redirect":true
  "tls_certificate":"OK"
}

Response details

target_url: the actual URL destination
is_tls: whether the target_url is protected by some kind of TLS certificate
is_redirect: if true, the inspected URL will redirect to the target_url. Otherwise, it is already the final URL
tls_certificate: additional information about the TLS certificate

TLS certificate statuses

Status	Description
OK	The certificate is valid and trustworthy. This is not a guarantee that the target webpage is safe, but it is a starting point
WRONG_HOST	The certificate subject does not match the webpage domain
EXPIRED	The certificate is no longer valid
SELF_SIGNED	The certificate is self-signed
UNVERIFIED	Impossible to verify the certificate

Credits

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