Talk:URLTeam
Regarding archiving
Just randomly requesting TinyURLs like you propose will get you banned since you are making many requests for non-existent TinyURLs. We do allow bots to crawl TinyURLs, but only if they are crawling TinyURLs that exist which they pulled from whatever source they are crawling.
Kevin "Gilby" Gilbertson
TinyURL, Founder
A Problem Easily Solved
Just provide for us an excel spreadsheet in the form of:
tinyurl ID | full URL
And scraping won't be necessary. Up for it?
--Jscott 20:25, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
Another URL shortener
I ran into another URL shortener: http://ln-s.net/home/ Here's their API: http://ln-s.net/home/apidoc.jsp Jodi.a.schneider 17:05, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
xrl.us
Could you archive xrl.us (metamark.net), please? Thank you!
To clarify: metamark.net is the address of the web page; xrl.us is the prefix of the generated shortened URLs. -- Pne 12:08, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
Distributed Scraping
You could make a browser extension that records the long url for each short url that a person's browser visits, for certain known shorteners. This might be particularly helpful for uncooperative shorteners, since they wouldn't know the difference.
Then it would be a matter of encouraging many people to install the browser extension.
URLTeam gone?
There was no update in December 2011 as announced, and http://urlte.am/ currently shows a Dreamhost page "this member has not set up their site yet". Is this team dead? -- Pne 07:56, 29 January 2012 (UTC)