Support for additional link redirector/shorteners?

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There are some link redirect services that obscure the original link. I would love for Switchbar to process and act on the target link instead of the original one (like it can already with some link shorteners)

For example, in this example, the original intended link is “https://www.link.com”:

Microsoft “Safelinks” redirector link: https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.link.com%2F&data=…

Would it be possible for Switchbar to parse out the original URL from the “Safelinks” redirect service and act on the original URL instead of the original redirector URL?

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Another example is the “Viglink” redirector service.

  1. Viglink redirector link: https://redirect.viglink.com?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.link.com

redirects to “https://www.link.com”

Would it be possible for Switchbar to parse out the original URL from the Viglink redirect services and act on the target URL?

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Additional detail:

(1) Any safelink redirector URL will have a “url” parameter with the URL-encoded URL it redirects to. The rest of the parameters are not needed in order to know the redirect URL.

For example, look at the url parameter value in this. That is the real target URL (in this case the webcatalog site)

https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommunity.webcatalog.io%2F&data=05|02|c.carrillo%40northeastern.edu|3082c57613114862788908dd38f62c3c|a8eec281aaa34daeac9b9a398b9215e7|0|0|638729352191644916|Unknown|TWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D|0|||&sdata=%2BmlwYe9pS5rjSs%2BVXFwCwQLcgGkYpHGzAR%2B0tScB3Og%3D&reserved=0

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This page will take a “safelink” and decode it: https://www.o365atp.com/

Example:

20250425-221236593
20250425-2212365931177×481 16.5 KB

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Here’s another example of a big ugly safelinks redirector:

https://statics.teams.cdn.office.net/evergreen-assets/safelinks/1/atp-safelinks.html?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fun.com%2F&locale=en-us&dest=https%3A%2F%2Fteams.microsoft.com%2Fapi%2Fmt%2Fpart%2Famer-02%2Fbeta%2Fatpsafelinks%2Fgeturlreputationsitev2%2F&pc=g8X%252baDSpNbIA2K68MI07AZfiI2jOfMo7mr2DQbq%252fUmx%252fY0sgw3WnJujICff5jTsjbrIvfNk000I4kcWsqnHwmRtKgT6ZWNL9DJ8copX1jDCrdNOhkYZoIjuRt52EMP3RF70qkgtbx1OGk34lqS4Z526SmDQIy31umlD56vhxNG5pJRTrEmo3TEwKhqt02lKt0s0nCmXQ138He5d5EiiqO5koH3wvP9ykikIojAmfw%252fJYqtA%252bxHIEXwlNX0h9NRcRY0dZIBvoZhWV%252f4Se%252fjwWzfMnPqBFZeGJkU7ftj%252fbTVmmeQ1IPM%252fW%252fB4keDpe3tD4koM%252f%252by9tycgcLDpwDQfLt9AH%252f3PBaRe5TDYI6jtWolqoa8MJRLsohQsS6YBmQwBCbxxv6rODSHTjxyEYxK1mBETGxWQIzwg0A9m2Lop%252fHSkimH3jfs9jAZOB5oFPE16bWGFhr9UAm9kzy4wXBECzf168WkMb43DxBoI2wgwyikKS3rN8TH0xfhk%252fN9gaH5e%252fiFqjNA%252faOoa%252bcFhDO8LWIpcOoAOixMLa9QjM18odbSgcNQ0S32W6OWGnN%252bDsqfvu2mAwptoIdcT1Ti8MjCmO7aBqM8NJRbQFzHLzE998lRnE61bdVMXWi9UGXHOtZDP62kZ133x5m5nbH75BuBqG8Bpf9ySLYTTQqOJnYHVf%252fYzv8DxVSWzFgnhsjFvK9YxU%252fjmFFXYzW94VpOK%252bR07tHqnNCduUe%252ftJV6A5oOzuF5QIqNtTc5ZcPBPYrLqII6T1yepTVDuNgbrDZukkbe2znuAjiIgicGQPFoSOy2OjuTWKt3IhFUstp%252bN3KV4sN8Z501LGRfCnW7ji2NIBU2um6lfUxA4g%252bWhaMKxkJlBzt43VUPdsWbVEcsjxyOKsUwAHK%252beWHpBj%252bPYKP7HNneH8eCwboTBETaP%252fpdo3yT35vLlbaLLKr2Zzx0MQ8R2M8u2gU62xNqMJc%252fz8zEie9K3%252fFx1GkxeFP%252bL56GtVE77hF6w0rLztAPNnvvCvny%252fc3ZOm7w5mtwGNgPC8Ij4B8Fj29E%252bn70ekcYlNY6bJXrnN5%252f40ZrsanC%252bmMQiTF%252fMWytSrUERnPfg9jAYPakKo1CMrAISGBpQ8XRVcCR3GSAF%252fgcFsdM9hR7ne9w1c0m8MBY%252b%252fqf4Sp94pW9zxg8D985wXXZSS%252bZD8MXr1yy5ERzFFc6VDqvUOy4OBzSNsE4rsZwL3gI0pfPSgcRkM6rUHy3qF3EmyBybZ%252fM5UyRZzVHpZ7Odt3zGvbXfLzKWWrEpUTYbZ8Y3ZJ%252bVWjrrUSFLuDm77rdRWauHCvWSTtBNIXCywq5jgBi3%252fSQcUqhDPjcXB4cLQ4Yh2F5p84lLVHe7ZmR%252b6TaVFJWf%252bRh7KvN0qD6Kk2%252fU%253d%3B%20expires%3DMon%2C%2028%20Apr%202025%2014%3A11%3A05%20GMT%3B%20path%3D%2F%3B%20SameSite%3DNone%3B%20secure%3B%20httponly&wau=https%3A%2F%2FNAM12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com%2FGetUrlReputation&si=1745676786667%3B1745676786667%3B19%3A510103d7-ffee-4da4-95bb-e9259f7c4dfc_c63c67ca-02b0-4d43-9c2b-616bacdc3885%40unq.gbl.spaces&sd={convId%3A%2019%3A510103d7-ffee-4da4-95bb-e9259f7c4dfc_c63c67ca-02b0-4d43-9c2b-616bacdc3885%40unq.gbl.spaces%2C%20messageId%3A%201745676786667}&ce=prod&cv=49%2F25031321018&ssid=1d1f8c79-f1a4-4780-bdea-082c552e0631&ring=general&clickparams=eyJBcHBOYW1lIjoiVGVhbXMtRGVza3RvcCIsIkFwcFZlcnNpb24iOiI0OS8yNTAzMTMyMTAxOCIsIkhhc0ZlZGVyYXRlZFVzZXIiOmZhbHNlfQ==&bg=%23f0f0f0&fg=%23242424&fg2=%239092c1

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Thanks for the feedback! We’ll work to add rules for these links in the future. If you can provide a few working examples, that’d help a lot!