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FOSS alternative to URL Forwarder? (lemmy.nowsci.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hi all,

About to go full no-Google, but am missing one app alternative. This is URL Forwarder: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.daverix.urlforward

It allows users to share to it like a bookmarklet. Anyone know of something else that does this?

An example use case would be browsing in your Lemmy app and sharing the post URL to another webpage.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

This comes to mind - I use it personally everyday and find it comes in handy for tasks like you've described above: https://github.com/TrianguloY/URLCheck

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This is what I use and I almost forgot that I'm even using it until I saw this post.

Edit: It's on F-Droid but I don't know how to share the link directly to it on there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Am I dumb or is there not a way to share a link directly from F-Droid?

I try the share button, but it tries to share the .apk file.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

My share menu default to text with file based share as a secondary option.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I use Droid-ify F-Droid does that indeed. Droid-ify is an overall nicer client to acces different repositories.

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.looker.droidify/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yep. Use it every day. It's awesome.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Thank you! Just learned URL Forwarder is actually open source, but will take a look at this, too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Hmm, am I missing something in the functionality?

I like that it sanitizes the URL, but I need something that will convert a share of, say:

http://this/ site

To open a URL of http://that.site/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fthis.site

Is there a module that let's me do this?