TheRealURL Adds Page Titles
I needed this for a project I’m working on, so I added a new feature to TheRealURL unshortening service: JSON/P requests now return the page title (scraped from the HTML <title> tag) as well as its original URL.
For example, http://therealurl.appspot.com/?format=json&url=bit.ly/a returns:
{ "url" : "http://www.apple.com/", "title" : "Apple" }
The plain text format remains as is – nothing but the unshortened URL – so I don’t think there should be any issues for existing API users. Response times don’t appear to be affected much either. If you do get any issues, please let me know in the comments or at niryariv@gmail.com.
