#Tinyurl alternative full#

The popularity of TinyURLs influenced the creation of at least 100 similar websites. Main article: URL shortening Similar services Another preview feature is not well documented at the TinyURL site, but the alternative shortened URL with preview capability is also offered to shortcut creators as an option at the time of the creation of the link.

#Tinyurl alternative full#

To preview the full URL from the short TinyURL, the user can visit TinyURL first and enable previews as a default browser cookie setting or copy and paste the short URL into the browser address bar, and prepend the short /x with /x. For example, leads to the Wikipedia article about the website. This means that a user can create descriptive URLs rather than a randomly generated address. Starting in 2008, TinyURL allowed users to create custom, more meaningful aliases. net magazine or even Nature), and email clients that impose line breaks on messages at a certain length. Some examples of limited text boxes are IRC channel topics, email signatures, microblogs (such as Twitter, which notably limits all posts to first 140 and later 280 characters), certain printed newspapers (such as. They also fit in text boxes with a limited number of characters allowed. Short URL aliases are seen as useful because they are easier to write down, remember or distribute. TinyURL offers an API which allows applications to automatically create short URLs. According to the website, the shortened URLs will never expire. For each URL entered, the server adds a new alias in its hashed database and returns a short URL.

The TinyURL homepage includes a form which is used to submit a long URL for shortening.