Are there APIs for translating short url's back to regular links?

Question

I want to translate bulk numbers of short url's coming streamed from twitter. Rather than accessing each individual request I want to use API's that accept a list of short or tiny URL's and return the original URL's. Are such API's available?

Answer 1

Not really an API, but this will give you the URL really fast.

curl -I http://budurl.com/12948234 | grep Location | awk '{print $2}'

Answer 2

Have a look at bit.ly API or budurl.com API

Answer 3

99% of all url openers have an API.

For example, there's a PEAR package (PHP) called Services_ShortURL that supports:

• bit.ly
• digg
• is.gd
• short.ie
• tr.im
• tinyurl.com

Answer 4

There are a few web-sites around that are dedicated services to converting shortened URLs back to their original.

Two I know of that have APIs are LongURL and Untiny.me. I'm in the middle of writing a java library to use both of these.

Answer 5

I had written a small script to turn short urls to it's original links. It's based on the http header returned by the short urls.