#urlteam 2017-05-11,Thu

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19:26 🔗 JAA I came across http://gg.gg/ . Seems to be sequential five-character lower-case alphanumeric, 301 on success, 302 to homepage on error. Example: http://gg.gg/4jkvk
19:29 🔗 JAA And http://smarturlref.com/ . Very small shortener (28k URLs according to the homepage), sequential, up to three characters currently, alphanumeric (including upper and lower case), JavaScript redirect. There are examples on the homepage.
20:20 🔗 JAA I also found http://many.at/ , which is not a normal URL shortener as it allows for entering a whole list of URLs. (There are several similar services by the same owner, name.ly: http://afewurls.com/ http://faturl.com/ http://urlbunch.com/ http://brief.ly/ http://links2.me/ (and more?). It seems that each page has its own database.) Is this also something we want to cover in this project?
20:24 🔗 xmc that one would probably be best captured as a warc
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21:30 🔗 JAA Alright
21:31 🔗 JAA I've looked at them a bit more in detail in the meantime. It seems that they all use non-sequential six-character 0-9a-z IDs, but I also found some IDs like "~MP0wT". However, I noticed they all have a /random.php (or similar) page which redirects to a random link list. That's probably a better way than trying to bruteforce the IDs, although it will very likely miss some links unless running essentially forev
21:31 🔗 JAA er.
21:34 🔗 JAA One additional problem is that their servers are extremely slow. On faturl.com, a single page load (including the random.php redirect) takes ~15 seconds currently.
21:52 🔗 JAA This shortener doesn't seem to have been mentioned yet either: http://www.qoiob.com/ . Similar but unrelated (as far as I can tell) to tinyarrows.

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