URL detective

curl -X POST "$DOATHING_API/v1/explore/url-detective" \
  -H "x-api-key: $DOATHING_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url": "https://example.com/article?utm_source=newsletter"}'

Paste a link and see where it really goes: every redirect, what it says about itself when shared, who else it loads from, and which parts of the address are only tracking you.

Fetch a URL and report its redirect chain, metadata and sharing cards, third-party hosts, tracking parameters and a health score.

Response

The result carries your remaining balance alongside it, so you can track spend without a second call.

{
  "dashboard": {
    "title": "Example — a page",
    "subtitle": "200 · text/html",
    "hero": {
      "headline": "What is actually at that URL",
      "figures": [
        {
          "value": "200",
          "label": "Final status",
          "context": "https://example.com/article"
        },
        {
          "value": "78",
          "label": "URL health",
          "context": "out of 100"
        },
        {
          "value": "1",
          "label": "Redirects",
          "context": "before it settled"
        }
      ]
    },
    "insights": [
      {
        "label": "What the page tells us",
        "insights": [
          {
            "claim": "This URL carries tracking parameters",
            "evidence": "1 removed: utm_source"
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "explorer": {
    "kind": "url-detective",
    "final_url": "https://example.com/article",
    "status": 200,
    "clean_url": "https://example.com/article",
    "removed_params": [
      "utm_source"
    ]
  },
  "request_id": "37f01edb-0163-42a1-ac51-0acaef979800",
  "credits_remaining": 96
}

Cost

3 credits per call, whether it is run from the site or from the API — the credential differs, the price does not. A new account starts with 20 credits.

A rejected request still costs a credit: the authorizer decrements before the tool validates. A call rejected for a missing or invalid key is free.