soundcloud.app.goo.gl/* links cannot be resolved with oEmbed

[alekzhang]

Title: soundcloud.app.goo.gl/* links cannot be resolved with oEmbed

Issue found of: March 19th, 2021

Endpoint(s):

• GET https://soundcloud.com/oembed?url=soundcloud.app.goo.gl/*

Scope(s):

• None (application is not using authentication i.e., implicit flow)

Steps to reproduce:

curl "https://soundcloud.com/oembed" -d 'format=json' -d 'url=https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/oHaE9jAAhVbuAB7g8'

Expected behaviour:

An oEmbed response is returned with information about the resource referenced by soundcloud.app.goo.gl/*

https://oembed.com/providers.json shows

    {
        "provider_name": "SoundCloud",
        "provider_url": "http://soundcloud.com/",
        "endpoints": [
            {
                "schemes": [
                    "http://soundcloud.com/*",
                    "https://soundcloud.com/*",
                    "https://soundcloud.app.goog.gl/*"
                ],
                "url": "https://soundcloud.com/oembed"
            }
        ]
    }

Perhaps https://soundcloud.app.goog.gl/* should read https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/*

Actual behaviour:

Empty response (consistently)

[rahul-sc]

Interesting that you're running into this case.

How are you getting hold of the short urls and could you perhaps explain a bit your use case, please?

[alekzhang]

soundcloud.app.goo.gl links are exported from the Soundcloud App when sharing a track via link. I am working on improving display of URLs shared in a messaging application and I would like to use oEmbed for Soundcloud link previews

[alekzhang]

@rahul-sc any updates here?

[rahul-sc]

Hey @alekzhang this is not a use case we had intended to cover as these URLs are not actually served via our API. This is currently not a focus at the moment. We may reconsider if there are more folks that need this.

[amanduslindstrom]

Hey @alekzhang this is not a use case we had intended to cover as these URLs are not actually served via our API. This is currently not a focus at the moment. We may reconsider if there are more folks that need this.

More folks need it;)

[amanduslindstrom]

function get_shorten_url($url) {
				$headers = get_headers($url, 1);
				$url = $headers['Location'];
				if (is_array($url)) {
					foreach ($url as $url) {
						echo $url . "\n";
					}
				} else {
					echo $url;

Code above solved it, props to https://w3guy.com/original-url-shortened-link-php/