A way to get the post or comment from a share link

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
32/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
api, backend

Research direction

No file or test is named. Start by locating Devvit's URL-handling and HTTP Fetch entry points, then check how Reddit share links redirect and why reddit.com is blocked. Done means providing a supported way to resolve a share link to its original permalink or identify the referenced post or comment.

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Description

reddit-api

About a year ago, Reddit introduced a form of link that has sharing information for easier tracking.

Example post link: https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/s/i1ISuc5IKa

Unfortunately, it's not possible using Devvit to determine where links like this lead to, or even if it's a post or comment that's referenced.

It'd be great if we had a way to resolve these links to the original permalink, or to a post or comment object. HTTP Fetch could theoretically be used for this (to find out where the redirect leads) but reddit.com is blocked.

Dominant language
TypeScript
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