diff --git a/app/src/main/java/com/akdev/nofbeventscraper/FbEventScraper.java b/app/src/main/java/com/akdev/nofbeventscraper/FbEventScraper.java
index 3337c26..3c4dcce 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/com/akdev/nofbeventscraper/FbEventScraper.java
+++ b/app/src/main/java/com/akdev/nofbeventscraper/FbEventScraper.java
@@ -212,6 +212,7 @@ public class FbEventScraper extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, Void> {
      *
      * @param aVoid
      */
+    @Override
     protected void onPostExecute(Void aVoid) {
         super.onPostExecute(aVoid);
 
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/com/akdev/nofbeventscraper/FbPageScraper.java b/app/src/main/java/com/akdev/nofbeventscraper/FbPageScraper.java
index 90d8269..c2b46b7 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/com/akdev/nofbeventscraper/FbPageScraper.java
+++ b/app/src/main/java/com/akdev/nofbeventscraper/FbPageScraper.java
@@ -67,12 +67,12 @@ public class FbPageScraper extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, Void> {
                         .getElementsByAttributeValueMatching("href", Pattern.compile(regex))
                         .eachAttr("href");
 
-                for (String link : event_links_href) {
-                    this.event_links.add("https://www.facebook.com" + link);
+                for (String event_id : event_links_href) {
+                    this.event_links.add("https://mbasic.facebook.com" + event_id);
                 }
 
                 /*
-                 * check if more events should scraped
+                 * check if more events should be scraped
                  */
                 SharedPreferences shared_prefs = PreferenceManager
                         .getDefaultSharedPreferences(scraper.main.get());
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ public class FbPageScraper extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, Void> {
      *
      * @param aVoid
      */
+    @Override
     protected void onPostExecute(Void aVoid) {
         super.onPostExecute(aVoid);
 
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/com/akdev/nofbeventscraper/FbRedirectionResolver.java b/app/src/main/java/com/akdev/nofbeventscraper/FbRedirectionResolver.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f484ff8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/src/main/java/com/akdev/nofbeventscraper/FbRedirectionResolver.java
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+package com.akdev.nofbeventscraper;
+
+import android.os.AsyncTask;
+
+import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
+import java.net.URL;
+
+public class FbRedirectionResolver extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, Void> {
+
+    private String input_url;
+    private FbScraper scraper;
+    private String redirected_url;
+
+    public FbRedirectionResolver (FbScraper scraper, String input_url) {
+        this.input_url = input_url;
+        this.scraper = scraper;
+    }
+
+    protected Void doInBackground(Void... voids) {
+        try {
+            HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) new URL(input_url).openConnection();
+
+            con.setInstanceFollowRedirects(false);
+
+            con.connect();
+
+            redirected_url = con.getHeaderField("Location");
+
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected void onPostExecute(Void aVoid) {
+        super.onPostExecute(aVoid);
+
+        scraper.redirectionResultCallback(redirected_url);
+    }
+}
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diff --git a/app/src/main/java/com/akdev/nofbeventscraper/FbScraper.java b/app/src/main/java/com/akdev/nofbeventscraper/FbScraper.java
index 7d098d2..2613cda 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/com/akdev/nofbeventscraper/FbScraper.java
+++ b/app/src/main/java/com/akdev/nofbeventscraper/FbScraper.java
@@ -5,10 +5,12 @@ import android.os.AsyncTask;
 
 import androidx.preference.PreferenceManager;
 
+import java.io.IOException;
 import java.lang.ref.WeakReference;
 import java.net.MalformedURLException;
 import java.net.URISyntaxException;
 import java.net.URL;
+import java.net.URLConnection;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.regex.Matcher;
@@ -33,6 +35,28 @@ public class FbScraper {
         this.tasks = new ArrayList<>();
     }
 
+    protected String getShortened(String url) throws IOException, URISyntaxException {
+        // check for url format
+        new URL(url).toURI();
+
+        String regex = "(fb.me/)(e/)?([^/?]*)|(facebook.com/event_invite/[a-zA-Z0-9]*)";
+
+        Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(regex);
+        Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(url);
+
+        if (matcher.find()) {
+            //only mbasic does have event ids displayed in HTML
+            String url_prefix = "https://mbasic.";
+
+            // create URL
+            return url_prefix + matcher.group();
+
+        } else {
+            throw new URISyntaxException(url, "Does not contain page.");
+        }
+
+    }
+
     /**
      * Checks if valid URL,
      * strips the facebook page id from the input link and create an URL that can be scraped from.
@@ -183,11 +207,35 @@ public class FbScraper {
         }
     }
 
+    protected void redirectUrl (String url) {
+        FbRedirectionResolver resolver = new FbRedirectionResolver(this, url);
+
+        resolver.execute();
+    }
+    protected void redirectionResultCallback(String url) {
+        this.input_url = url;
+
+        // now try again with expanded url
+        this.run();
+    }
+
     /**
      * Start scraping input url
      */
     void run() {
 
+        // check if shortened url
+        try {
+            String shortened = getShortened(input_url);
+            url_type = url_type_enum.SHORT;
+            redirectUrl(shortened);
+
+            return;
+
+        } catch (IOException | URISyntaxException e) {
+            url_type = url_type_enum.INVALID;
+        }
+
         // check if input url is an event
         try {
             String event_url = getEventUrl(input_url);
@@ -212,5 +260,5 @@ public class FbScraper {
     }
 
     // enum for storing url type in this class
-    enum url_type_enum {EVENT, PAGE, INVALID}
+    enum url_type_enum {SHORT, EVENT, PAGE, INVALID}
 }
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diff --git a/app/src/main/res/values-de/strings.xml b/app/src/main/res/values-de/strings.xml
index 754de86..5c8eae0 100644
--- a/app/src/main/res/values-de/strings.xml
+++ b/app/src/main/res/values-de/strings.xml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
     <string name="button_add">Zum Kalender hinzufügen</string>
     <string name="tooltip_paste">Einfügen von Inhalten aus der Zwischenablage in das URL-Eingabefeld</string>
     <string name="preferences_url_setting">Welcher URL-Präfix ist zu verwenden?</string>
-    <string name="preferences_url_setting_summary">Die Nutzung von m.facebook.com ist stabiler und schneller. Die Verwendung von www.facebook.com funktioniert besser bei Ereignissen mit mehreren Instanzen und zeigt eine hochauflösende Vorschau an, geht aber irgendwann kaputt, wenn Facebook das klassische Design deaktiviert.</string>
+    <string name="preferences_url_setting_summary">Die Nutzung von mbasic.facebook.com ist stabiler und schneller. Die Verwendung von www.facebook.com funktioniert besser bei Ereignissen mit mehreren Instanzen und zeigt eine hochauflösende Vorschau an, geht aber irgendwann kaputt, wenn Facebook das klassische Design deaktiviert.</string>
     <string name="error_clipboard_empty">Fehler: Zwischenablage leer</string>
     <string name="error_scraping">Fehler: Veranstaltungsdaten nicht gefunden</string>
     <string name="error_url">Fehler: URL ungültig</string>
diff --git a/app/src/main/res/values/arrays.xml b/app/src/main/res/values/arrays.xml
index 3ff6f6f..c0d9a7d 100644
--- a/app/src/main/res/values/arrays.xml
+++ b/app/src/main/res/values/arrays.xml
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 <resources>
     <!-- Reply Preference -->
     <string-array name="url_to_scrape">
-        <item>m.facebook.com</item>
+        <item>mbasic.facebook.com</item>
         <item>www.facebook.com</item>
     </string-array>
 
     <string-array name="url_prefix">
-        <item>https://m.</item>
+        <item>https://mbasic.</item>
         <item>https://www.</item>
     </string-array>
 
diff --git a/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml b/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml
index 285e730..cc0a3f5 100644
--- a/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml
+++ b/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
     <!-- Preferences -->
     <string name="preferences_scraper_header" translatable="false">Scraper</string>
     <string name="preferences_url_setting">Which URL prefix to use</string>
-    <string name="preferences_url_setting_summary">"Using m.facebook.com is more stable and faster. Using www.facebook.com works better with multiple instance events and will display a high resolution preview but will eventually break when Facebook disables the classic design.     "</string>
+    <string name="preferences_url_setting_summary">"Using mbasic.facebook.com is more stable and faster. Using www.facebook.com works better with multiple instance events and will display a high resolution preview but will eventually break when Facebook disables the classic design."</string>
 
     <string name="preferences_events_header">Events</string>
     <string name="preferences_event_setting">Clear event list</string>
diff --git a/app/src/main/res/xml/root_preferences.xml b/app/src/main/res/xml/root_preferences.xml
index d7d18e0..ee413af 100644
--- a/app/src/main/res/xml/root_preferences.xml
+++ b/app/src/main/res/xml/root_preferences.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
         <ListPreference
             android:summary="@string/preferences_url_setting_summary"
-            app:defaultValue="https://m."
+            app:defaultValue="https://mbasic."
             app:entries="@array/url_to_scrape"
             app:entryValues="@array/url_prefix"
             app:key="url_preference"