{"id":6035,"date":"2018-07-09T10:54:36","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T14:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/?p=6035"},"modified":"2018-07-09T10:54:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T14:54:36","slug":"making-short-links-long-with-powershell-and-wpf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/powershell\/6035\/making-short-links-long-with-powershell-and-wpf\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Short Links Long with PowerShell and WPF"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes, when I have nothing better to do, I kill some time giving Todd Klindt<\/a> and Shane Young<\/a> a hard time during their podcast<\/a>. You should join me sometime. Anyway, during a recent show Todd mentioned a bit of PowerShell code he put together to resolve short links. You see these all the time in your Twitter stream and others. What is that link really pointing to? Todd's solution was to use Invoke-Webrequest<\/a>\u00a0 to access the link and then look at the uri from the response. I took his code, as I usually do, and ran with it - straight into a simple WPF form.<\/p>\n

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Here's the essence of Todd's original code.<\/p>\n

$short = https:\/\/bit.ly\/PSMoL3<\/a>\r\n$wr = Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing \u2013Uri $short\r\n$wr.baseresponse.ResponseUri.AbsoluteURI\r\n<\/pre>\n
If you run this you should get the result https:\/\/www.manning.com\/books\/learn-windows-powershell-in-a-month-of-lunches-third-edition<\/a>. I figured is might be nice to have a form where I could copy and paste a link from Twitter and get the resolved link. So I put together a WPF-based script that uses a stack panel to display a simple input box.<\/p>\n
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Clicking OK runs the code in the associated scriptblock to resolve the link using Invoke-Webrequest and then closes the form. The function writes the result, which is an object, back to the pipeline.<\/p>\n
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Depending on the resolved link you may not see all of it, but hopefully enough to know whether you trust it. Or run the Resolve-ShortLink function and pipe it to Format-List<\/a>.<\/p>\n
You can get the code for my function from GitHub.<\/p>\n