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@corbet hey, I wrote you a short thing: https://git.sr.ht/~gnomon/fetch-goo.gl-shortlink-dereferences

It turns out that the ~19,000 goo.gl shortlinks in that lore search you posted deduplicate down to about 360 unique shortlinks. The script in that repo can pull down about 285 of them. Stuffs 'em in a smol sqlite3 database with a simple index that makes lookups, even in a tight loop, close to instant.

It's only the very simplest proof of concept, but it _does_ work. The Lore picture is not as bad as I expected.