Unshort

Unshort unwraps monetized shortlinks and prints the real destination URL. Minimal CLI, no browser extension, no compiled binary.

See the terminal preview above for sample output.

Install

pip install -r requirements.txt
playwright install chromium
python unshort.py --help

Usage

Drag unshort.py into your terminal after python, then paste the shortlink:

python unshort.py "https://linkvertise.com/ID/slug?o=sharing"

Quiet mode prints only the destination URL:

python unshort.py -q "https://linkvertise.com/..."

Use --visible if you want to watch the browser step.

Supported shorteners

• Linkvertise
• More coming

How it works

Unshort uses Playwright once to load the Linkvertise page and collect the same session cookies a real browser gets. It then reuses those cookies with curl_cffi, which sends Chrome-like TLS requests to Linkvertise's GraphQL API, resolves the link metadata, completes the required task flow, and returns the final destination URL.

Coming soon

• lockr.so
• lootlabs
• work.ink

License

MIT © xt0n1