Simple-realurl NPM

simple-realurl

A simple node module to convert short url's to the original url.

Based off Manuel van Rijn's original realurl, I created this to remove some dependencies (copypaste) and any global bin files.

Getting Started

Install the module with: npm install simple-realurl --save

Within your NodeJS project

var realurl = require('simple-realurl');
realurl.get('http://goo.gl/BGV9x', function(error, result) {
   // error = null;
   // result = "http://github.com/manuelvanrijn/node-realurl";
});

realurl.get('http://this-is-not-a-real-url.com/at-all', function(error, result) {
   // error = Error('URL resulted in a 404');
   // result = null;
});

realurl.get('', function(error, result) {
   // error = Error('Please specify a short url');
   // result = null;
});

realurl.get('url', {agent: false}, function(error, result) {
  // bypasses Node's http/s client pool
});