# How are the short-urls for data extraction generated?

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**Created:** [October 12, 2022, 4:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-are-the-short-urls-for-data-extraction-generated/241713 "2022-10-12T16:45:49Z")\
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You can’t guess the url unless you have the file, as the hash is based on the file contents.

How are people posting the data? You’ll need to pull it from the post where they uploaded it

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