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Message: <blockquote data-quote="codeguru" data-source="post: 52" data-attributes="member: 2">URL shorteners are a dime a dozen these days, and it is quite nice to have a pretty URL instead of a mile long string, but there are some downsides to URL shorteners:  they can mask dangerous URLs and getting to the endpoint can be slow, since you end up making multiple requests.  And <a href="https://davidwalsh.name/tinyurl-porn" target="_blank">what if a shortener sold out to a porn company</a>?!  Whoa!A while back I wrote a post about <a href="https://davidwalsh.name/curl-redirect-url" target="_blank">following URLs from command line with cURL</a>.  Since I love JavaScript and Node.js is in full flight, I want to show you <a href="https://github.com/jksolbakken/linkfollower" target="_blank">[ICODE]linkfollower[/ICODE]</a>, a Node.js utility for following URL redirects and getting the final landing URL.Start by installing [ICODE]linkfollower[/ICODE]:yarn add linkfollower# or `npm install linkfollower`With [ICODE]linkfollower[/ICODE] installed globally, we can use the [ICODE]follow[/ICODE] command to follow the series of redirects until the final URL:# follow {url}follow <a href="http://davidwalsh.name/css" target="_blank">http://davidwalsh.name/css</a># RESULT:# <a href="http://davidwalsh.name/css" target="_blank">http://davidwalsh.name/css</a> -> 301# <a href="https://davidwalsh.name/css" target="_blank">https://davidwalsh.name/css</a> -> 301# <a href="https://davidwalsh.name/css-animation-callback" target="_blank">https://davidwalsh.name/css-animation-callback</a> -> 200URL shorteners can be likened to a blindfold — the promise of going one place but possible end up in another.  Using [ICODE]linkfollower[/ICODE] is a good practice if you care to be secure with links.The post <a href="https://davidwalsh.name/follow-url-redirects-nodejs" target="_blank">Follow URL Redirects with Node.js</a> appeared first on <a href="https://davidwalsh.name" target="_blank">David Walsh Blog</a>.<a href="https://tkjs.us/dwb" target="_blank"><img src="https://davidwalsh.name/demo/tjs_block-1.svg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a><a href="https://davidwalsh.name/follow-url-redirects-nodejs" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></blockquote>

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