Resolve canonical URLs from shortened URLs

[deanishe]

Resolve HTTP Redirects

Follows any HTTP redirects and returns the canonical URL. Also displays information about the primary host (hostname, IP address(es), aliases).

You can paste a URL into Alfred's query box or grab a URL directly from the clipboard.

Installation

You can install the workflow from GitHub or Packal.

Usage

• resolve URL — Find and display the canonical URL after all redirects.
• ↩ — Open the new URL in your default browser
• ⌘+↩ — Copy the new URL to the clipboard
• resolvepb — Grab the URL from the clipboard and resolve any redirects as

If the URL has no redirects, a "URL is canonical" message will be displayed.

Licence, thanks

This workflow is released under the MIT licence. It uses Alfred-Workflow for the plumbing and to resolve HTTP redirects.

Edited September 4, 2014 by deanishe

[Florian]

That's cool. Could you add a secondary result with the resolved DNS matching the resolved address? I think it could be useful sometimes and it wouldn't take any extra time i believe.

[deanishe]

You mean the IP address of the domain?

[Florian]

yes :-)

[deanishe]

What's the use of the IP address(es)?

 

It would take longer because it means another connection unless I use threads. And I'd have to parse the URLs to get the domain names.

 

Relatively speaking, that's a lot of additional work, and I'm not sure what the benefit is.

[deanishe]

I looked into a bit and it was fairly easy to implement (thanks Python!) and the info is quite interesting, so I added DNS info on the host in v1.1.

[Florian]

Yeah that's cool And I can't think of a concrete application of having the IP handy, but I remember needing it in the past. And it's just cool 

[deanishe]

You're right. It is pretty cool, even though I've no idea what to do with the information.

 

The added delay is a bit annoying, though.