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  • Best way to get the URL where the URL shortener redirects to?

    From danny burstein@21:1/5 to tjoen on Wed Sep 15 06:28:09 2021
    In <shs3kj$2v7$1@dont-email.me> tjoen <tjoen@dds.invalid> writes:

    I usually use Lynx text browser (in Linux).
    But the time the URL is seen on the status bar is often too short.
    The last time I needed three attempts to get the URL copied to
    clipboard.
    I haven't found the option to show the URL in Lynx, if it is possible.
    Is there a better way?

    One trick is to use lynx to pull up
    the articls, and then once the clip
    is on your screen, hit the "=" sign
    (no quotes) and that'll bring up
    the actual URL (and other info) of
    where you are.

    But yeah, having an easy way to expand
    the shortened URLs would make life
    quite a bit more civilized.


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  • From tjoen@21:1/5 to All on Wed Sep 15 08:25:12 2021
    I usually use Lynx text browser (in Linux).
    But the time the URL is seen on the status bar is often too short.
    The last time I needed three attempts to get the URL copied to
    clipboard.
    I haven't found the option to show the URL in Lynx, if it is possible.
    Is there a better way?

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  • From Andreas Kohlbach@21:1/5 to tjoen on Wed Sep 15 10:13:50 2021
    On Wed, 15 Sep 2021 08:25:12 +0200, tjoen wrote:

    I usually use Lynx text browser (in Linux).
    But the time the URL is seen on the status bar is often too short.
    The last time I needed three attempts to get the URL copied to
    clipboard.
    I haven't found the option to show the URL in Lynx, if it is possible.
    Is there a better way?

    You can type G. But on very long URLs it still need some copy and paste attempts.

    If lucky, the target URL is visible in the source code. To see it, type \ .
    If an URL does not fit the screen it expands over several lines, ending
    with a \ (has nothing to do with the lynx command \ to call up the
    source). Copying and pasting these you need to remove the \ .

    You can also try

    wget --spider http://...

    to get redirections. --spider does not save any results.
    --
    Andreas

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  • From David Ritz@21:1/5 to tjoen on Wed Sep 15 12:53:37 2021
    On Wednesday, 15 September 2021 08:25 +0200,
    in article <shs3kj$2v7$1@dont-email.me>,
    tjoen <tjoen@dds.invalid> wrote:

    I usually use Lynx text browser (in Linux).
    But the time the URL is seen on the status bar is often too short.
    The last time I needed three attempts to get the URL copied to
    clipboard.
    I haven't found the option to show the URL in Lynx, if it is possible.
    Is there a better way?

    In the Options (o) menu, under Keyboard Input, I select "Links are
    numbered". If I want to see what links appear on any given web-page,
    Print (p): Print to screen, will produce a list of the numbered links,
    as well as displaying the full, unbroken URLs, even for those which
    may appear on multiple lines of an eighty (80) column terminal
    display.

    --
    David Ritz <dritz@mindspring.com>
    Be kind to animals; kiss a shark.

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  • From tjoen@21:1/5 to David Ritz on Thu Sep 16 06:39:02 2021
    On 9/15/21 19:53, David Ritz wrote:
    On Wednesday, 15 September 2021 08:25 +0200,
    in article <shs3kj$2v7$1@dont-email.me>,
    tjoen <tjoen@dds.invalid> wrote:

    I usually use Lynx text browser (in Linux).
    ..
    In the Options (o) menu, under Keyboard Input, I select "Links are
    numbered".

    Also helpful. Thank you!

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