# How should short links be supported in Discourse

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-should-short-links-be-supported-in-discourse/15339>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [5. Mai 2014 um 23:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-should-short-links-be-supported-in-discourse/15339 "2014-05-05T23:57:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Abhishek\_Gupta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/13edae/32.png) [@Abhishek\_Gupta](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Abhishek_Gupta)\
**Post date:** [6. Februar 2014 um 16:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-should-short-links-be-supported-in-discourse/15339/1 "2014-02-06T16:04:00Z")

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> [@Contributing to Discourse development](https://meta.discourse.org/t/contributing-to-discourse-development/3823/1):
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> Mixed projects  
> Share a link to this post dialog should provide a short link option via goo.gl API

If anyone else is not working on it, i would like to work on it, just to be clear, it should work like this right?

1. I type a url, say [www.google.com](http://www.google.com)
2. But this link is shortened by the Goo.gl API to [Google](http://goo.gl/fbsS)

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