Reference & Lookup Data · Integration
Unshorten.me
Add Unshorten.me to your product for your customers, and give your AI agents governed access to it.
A shortened link hides where it goes, which is convenient for the person sharing it and a problem for any product that has to decide whether to follow it. Unshorten.me does one job: give it a short link and it returns the address at the end of the redirect chain. That is a small answer with disproportionate value, because knowing the real destination is what lets your product show a user where a link actually leads, apply your own domain rules before anything is fetched, or hand the result to whatever reputation check you already run. Treat it as what it is, an expander rather than a verdict: it tells you where a link resolves to, not whether the page there is safe. Lookups are metered, so each customer uses their own key and the same link resolves to the same place until whoever owns it changes the redirect, which makes caching straightforward and worth doing.
In your product
Embedded for your customers. Per-tenant auth, no per-customer code, maintained by fastn.
Let each customer supply their own key so link expansions are counted against their allowance rather than a shared one you meter.
Show users the real destination of a shortened link before they click it, instead of asking them to trust an opaque address.
Apply your own allow and block rules to the expanded address, so a decision is made on the destination rather than on the shortener.
Cache expansions per tenant, since a short link keeps resolving to the same place until its owner changes it.
For your AI agents
Governed, audited access for the agents you build, through the MCP server.
An agent expands a link before it reads or acts on anything behind it, and reports where it actually leads.
An agent checks a batch of shortened links in a message and lists the domains they resolve to.
An agent flags a link whose destination does not match the domain a user was expecting.
Example prompt
Expand the shortened links in this message and tell me which domains they really point at.
Set up Unshorten.me in 4 steps
- 01Enable the Unshorten.me connector in your fastn dashboard.
- 02Have each customer supply their own key, so lookups run against their allowance rather than a shared account.
- 03Decide where in your flow a link is expanded, and set a cache window per tenant for repeat lookups.
- 04Call it from your product and expose the same connection to your agents through the MCP gateway.
Why teams use the Unshorten.me integration
What you get by embedding it with fastn instead of building it yourself.
- Ship an Unshorten.me integration without building it. Your customers connect their own Unshorten.me account inside your product and work their lookups, results and reports there, with no per-customer code on your side.
- Handle the part that actually costs time: these are metered read sources, so an uncached lookup on every page view burns the customer's allowance. fastn owns the auth, token refresh, rate limits, pagination and breaking-change fixes, so an Unshorten.me update is not your on-call problem.
- One integration serves your product and your agents. The same governed Unshorten.me connection powers in-product features and gives AI agents scoped, audited access, so you answer questions from an authoritative outside source without holding that data yourself without wiring it twice.
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SnowflakeUnshorten.me integration FAQ
How do I add an Unshorten.me integration to my product?
Enable the Unshorten.me connector in your fastn dashboard, then let each customer authenticate their own Unshorten.me account. fastn handles the OAuth flow, token storage and refresh per tenant, so there is no Unshorten.me client code in your app and no per-customer branch in your codebase. Setup is 4 steps.
Do my customers each connect their own Unshorten.me account?
Yes. Every connection is scoped to the individual customer, so each authorises their own Unshorten.me account and only ever sees their own lookups, results and reports. That per-tenant isolation is the point of an embedded integration: you support the long tail of customer setups without maintaining an integration per customer.
Can AI agents use this Unshorten.me integration?
Yes. The same connection is exposed to your agents through the fastn MCP gateway, with permissions scoped per tenant and every call audited. An agent expands a link before it reads or acts on anything behind it, and reports where it actually leads.
Who maintains the Unshorten.me integration?
fastn does. When Unshorten.me changes an endpoint, deprecates a field or alters its auth, the fix lands in the connector rather than in your backlog, and your customers' connections keep working.
Whose credentials does an Unshorten.me lookup run under?
Each customer's own. Quota and cost land on the customer that caused them rather than on a shared key you have to meter and re-bill, and one heavy customer cannot exhaust another's allowance.
How should Unshorten.me results be cached?
Per tenant, with a window that matches how fast the underlying data actually moves. Unshorten.me is a read source rather than a system of record, so the same query returns the same answer until the source changes, and caching is the difference between a sustainable integration and one that exhausts a customer's allowance on a busy page.
What can I build with the Unshorten.me integration?
A common starting point: let each customer supply their own key so link expansions are counted against their allowance rather than a shared one you meter. Teams also use it for the other use cases listed above, and expose it to agents for governed reads and writes.
How much does the Unshorten.me integration cost?
It is included. Pricing is based on connected accounts, not on how many connectors you enable, so adding Unshorten.me does not change your per-connector cost. You can start free with 3 connected accounts.
Add Unshorten.me to your product
Start free with 3 connected accounts. No sales call required, and no per-customer integration code.