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[Feature Request] New URL format

Open SuzukiYue opened this issue 2 years ago • 3 comments

Example: https://twitter.com/intent/follow?screen_name=DeemoRayark
Quiet self-descriptive.

SuzukiYue avatar May 27 '22 17:05 SuzukiYue

What is the expected behavior?

zedeus avatar May 28 '22 12:05 zedeus

I thing for https://twitter.com/intent/follow?screen_name=DeemoRayark the link should redirect to https://twitter.com/DeemoRayark?screen_name=DeemoRayarkb then it should redirect to https://nitter.net/kimcartoonweb?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fkimcartoon.li%2F&region=follow_link&screen_name=kimcartoonweb

This seems to be the same type of url. https://twitter.com/intent/follow?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fkimcartoon.li%2F&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Ebuttonembed%7Ctwterm%5Efollow%7Ctwgr%5Ekimcartoonweb&region=follow_link&screen_name=kimcartoonweb redirects to https://twitter.com/kimcartoonweb redirects to https://twitter.com/intent/follow?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fkimcartoon.li%2F&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Ebuttonembed%7Ctwterm%5Efollow%7Ctwgr%5Ekimcartoonweb&region=follow_link&screen_name=kimcartoonweb%20redirects%20to%20https://twitter.com/kimcartoonweb

redirects to

https://twitter.com/kimcartoonweb?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fkimcartoon.li%2F&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Ebuttonembed%7Ctwterm%5Efollow%7Ctwgr%5Ekimcartoonweb&region=follow_link&screen_name=kimcartoonweb redirects to

https://nitter.net/kimcartoonweb?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fkimcartoon.li%2F&region=follow_link&screen_name=kimcartoonweb

toyboatcash avatar Jan 15 '23 01:01 toyboatcash

I totally forget about this issue after sending it. Sorry for not responding.
The above clearly indicated what the expected behaviour is. The reason I wrote “self-descriptive” is that if replacing “twitter.com” with “nitter.net”, an error msg with "unsupported feature" will pop, which is the URL format supported by Twitter official.

The expected behaviour for Nitter is to redirect this link to the Twitter user page. For example: From: https://twitter.com/intent/follow?screen_name=DeemoRayark To: https://twitter.com/DeemoRayark

Or: From: https://twitter.com/intent/follow?screen_name=DeemoRayark&whatever_this_parameter_is=value To: https://twitter.com/DeemoRayark?whatever_this_parameter_is=value / https://twitter.com/DeemoRayark (Depends on what you want to do)

This format of URL is being used by some YouTubers to ask viewers to follow their twitter. For general users of Nitter, the most possible usage of Nitter is use some privacy add-ons for browser while these add-ons only replace the domain with Nitter instance's domain, which cause the trouble. The add-on itself does not care and should not care about the URL format, and thus I reported this issue to Nitter.

SuzukiYue avatar Jan 15 '23 06:01 SuzukiYue