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Getting Thought Name from a Shortened TheBrain Link

Designing the System Tools
#1

I can expand more on how or why to do this if anybody’s interested, but to put it concisely, if $i is your short TheBrain link, then:

curl -s `curl -Ls -I -w %{url_effective} $i | sed 's#app.thebrain.com#api.thebrain.com/api-v11#'` | jq ".data.attributes.name"

So:

curl -s `curl -Ls -I -w %{url_effective} https://bra.in/9jQg6m | sed 's#app.thebrain.com#api.thebrain.com/api-v11#'` | jq ".data.attributes.name"

gets you "Scuttlebutt (2017)".

#2

nice! Curl is such a useful library. And you have made fine use of it here. What are some of the main use cases we’re envisioning here?