SkipLink v1.2.0 — Cross-platform app releases

SkipLink v1.2.0 — Skip the ads. Land on the real link.

One-click bypass for ad-driven "shorten-and-earn" URL shorteners — adf.ly, shorte.st, linkvertise, shrinkearn, clk.sh, fc.lc, earn4link.in and 1,537 more — without ever rendering an ad.

What's new in v1.2.0

• Prebuilt app executables — ready-to-run binaries for Windows and Linux, built automatically by GitHub Actions on every v* tag
• launcher.py — a single entry point: double-click for the one-click GUI, or pass URL arguments for the CLI
• Frozen-data support — the bundled shortener database now resolves correctly inside compiled binaries (sys._MEIPASS)
• CI now runs the unit-test suite on every platform before packaging

Features

• Zero dependencies — pure Python standard library engine
• Multi-layer resolution — follows redirect chains and interstitial pages (a shortener pointing at another shortener keeps resolving)
• Decodes common tricks — meta refresh, location.href, var link, atob()/base64, unescape(), skip-button anchors, JSON APIs, plain-text destinations
• Honest wall detection — flags Google reCAPTCHA / safelink gates and ad-farm "money pages" instead of guessing
• One-click GUI (Tkinter) — paste → Bypass → Open/Copy final
• Full CLI — -f file, -j JSON, -o open, -c copy, -V version, --list domains
• Optional browser mode (Playwright) for JS-gated links

Downloads

Platform	App (double-click)	CLI
Windows	skiplink-gui.exe	skiplink.exe
Linux	skiplink-gui	skiplink

Commits in this release

• c1d88b4 SkipLink v1.1.0: one-click bypass for ad-driven shorteners
• 3483ad3 v1.2.0: cross-platform app releases via GitHub Actions
• 3ae117a ci: run all steps with bash so Windows (pwsh) doesn't break the pip install step
• 1f253b5 ci: drop macOS builds (runner backlog); add concurrency to cancel stale runs

Full changelog: https://github.com/akashmark8-cloud/skiplink/commits/v1.2.0