LinkPeelr

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This extension is no longer available in the official store. Delisted on 2025-09-15.

CRX ID
ahhcmjnfhbpgagklnjhlcabnbcdgipje
Status
Minor Policy Violation Removed Long Ago No Privacy Policy
Description from extension meta

Know Where Link Is Going Before You Click

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LinkPeelr
Description from store

LinkPeelr expands any short link (URL) and reveals the actual long link behind it. Just hover your mouse over the short link and a tooltip will appear showing you the long link behind it. Nothing more, nothing less. You can then click on the link or keep going without leaving the page.

✓ Works on any page, including Facebook and Twitter
✓ Works with all URL shorteners, including t.co, bit.ly, is.gd, ow.ly, etc.

NOTE: If you have a question, want to suggest a new feature, or report an issue, don't use the feedback form below. I will have no way to get back to you if you do. Just tweet me @ibagrak or send an email to ilya.bagrak+linkpeelr @ everyone's favorite Google email service.

v2.0.3:
+ Enabled extension for Facebook and Twitter pages

v2.0.0:
+ Updated extension for the new Google Chrome extension specification

v1.7.5:
+ Extension can now process short URLs with multiple levels of indirection ("deep peel")

v1.7.0:
+ Added "where" URL parameter to all extension requests

v1.6.1:
+ Plays well with Twitter @anywhere hovercards

v1.6:
+ Removed toolbar icon (by popular demand). Thanks for your comments.

Latest reviews

Rachel Phillips 2020-10-17

does as expected , it be better if i allowed to click on the url, it disappears when you try to click. Its also lacking copy feature.

zxginay 2017-11-14

Cool, but doesn't work on Facebook

Lada Flac 2016-09-01

Seems it doesn't work on LinkedIn.

Anonymous 2016-06-27

Worked on Twitter but not on Facebook. Not sure why. I'll try it for a bit and come back to update my review.

Tim M 2016-04-07

Does not work

太一白岩 2016-03-02

マウスを重ねたときだけリンクurlをポップアップしてくるので、レイアウトが崩れることがないのが気に入っています。

Tim Monaghan 2016-02-08

Shows surveys to 20% of people who install app after viewing the source code. MalwareBytes flags it as malicious. EDIT, goto extensions, then click "background page" on linkpeelr, right click background.js and open in new tab, and it literally has a line of code that says "// Show surveys to 20% (~600 people)" and then the code to display the survey

Brad Hughes 2016-01-24

Love this. Needed this because I got tired of blindly following shortened URLs.

Jill Lu 2015-11-15

It's not working with http://goo.gl/

Burak Bas 2015-10-26

get out

Tonya Skinner 2015-08-08

Just wish I could click on the "long URL" as I use this to deal with sites that are blocked (my school blocks most shortener URLs). New feature?

Nandish Hegde 2015-04-22

Works with most short URLs with a slight delay while it fetches the destination URL. No match for LongURL, probably the best one out there.

adam pisarski 2015-01-05

Bardzo faj ne i dobre :)

Paweł 2014-10-14

Just works!

Anonymous 2014-07-02

Great on Facebook!

Genet Jones 2014-04-04

Unobtrusive and indispensable. Works even in Facebook. This fixes the only thing I missed about Firefox.

Mark Major 2014-03-06

It works for me!

Anonymous 2013-10-27

No funciona. No muestra nada.

Anonymous 2013-09-20

Muy buena extensión. No entiendo los problemas, aunque son comentarios antiguos. A mí me funciona perfectamente en Twitter, por ejemplo. Sólo hay que poner el ratón encima de la url corta y aparece la dirección completa y real.

Hernán Fernando 2013-08-09

Doesn't work on Facebook, do not waste your time installing it.

Stepan Chizhov 2012-12-20

Cool and nice looking plugin =) Don't know how I lived before =)

Dane Morgan 2012-12-08

Does not function. I'm on whatever the newest stable chrome is and it does not pop the tool tip on any short URL I hover over at all.

Rita Gavelis 2012-11-10

I'm using Google Chrome version Version 23.0.1271.64 on a Mac running OS 10.6.8 and the caption only reflects the shortened url. Nothing is expanded. LinkPeelr is enabled in the extensions window, but it is not working at all like pictured in the overview for the app.

Stormy Henderson 2012-03-21

Have never seen it work.

Statistics

Installs
2,000
Market
Chrome Web Store
Category
-
Rating
3.6 (97 votes)
Last update
2013-08-10
Version 2.0.3
Languages
en