![]() I’m pushing this to the official Chrome Webstore, as well as to GitHub, so you can either use it, fork it, or abuse it in whatever manner you see fit. At worst, it’ll get me a little more versed with chrome extension programming, git, and brush up my javascript skills. I hope it’ll be a fun work in progress that, as time passes, can be tinkered with to add new and interesting functionality. I also wanted to get my hands dirty with git and GitHub since I’ve been meaning to pick up a modern SCM system, so that’s also my reason. So yes, it’s been done before, but I haven’t done it yet, so here we are. This exercise was done to get myself to start coding an extension and see where it leads. I’m sure there are a dime a dozen of these out there, but this exercise wasn’t just about the convenience of knowing the stats of a shortened URL. Well, because I can and because I want to. Perhaps once I get the basic abstraction down (which this first release lacks), I can start to add other services like bit.ly and so on. URL Stats Extractor: A Chrome extension to show the stats and relevant information about shortened links.įor the first release, the extension supports the goo.gl shortener simply because that’s the shortener of choice for me at the moment. I’ll do the separate development post later. I wanted an announcement and short description post instead, so here we are. I started writing this as a development post, but it turned out to be way too long and detailed.
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