Recover Original URL From A Short URL

There are many services to create a short URL from a lengthy and long URL and then share that with your friends and community. TinyURL is one of the most used short URL service by using which you can create a short URL. If your friend shared a short URL created by TinyURL and some of the services of TinyURL is blocked in your country or office then you can’t open that link over there.

In that case you will have to ask for the original link from your friend. Thanks to Untiny by using which you can recover the original URL for a short URL. Just paste the short URL created by Tinyurl in Untiny box and you will get the original URL from there.

If you don’t want to open the Untiny page to get the original URL then paste the below code on the address bar to get that, (Add TinyURL of the original page after = sign)

http://untiny.me?url= 

For example, I created a short URL for one of the post from this blog using TinyURL. The short URL is http://tinyurl.com/qt32os, Now I will paste the address on the address bar as “ http://untiny.me?url=http://tinyurl.com/qt32os” and will get the original URL as “http://www.clickonf5.org/tutorial/create-favicon-online/2201”.

For recovering the original URL from the Untiny, just open the Untiny page and paste the short URL generated by Tinyurl. You will get the original URL within seconds.

Below attached YouTube Tutorial for Untiny will provide you detailed information,

Embed this video in your blog by pasting the below mentioned piece of code,

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youtube.com/v/Y7EMs2vMd8I&hl=en&fs=1&border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen"
value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed
src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Y7EMs2vMd8I&hl=en&fs=1&border=1" type="application/x-
shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445"
height="364"></embed></object>

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