stuff.js

var http = require('http');
var new_url;
var new_json;
var data;
var chunk;
function unshorten(url1) {
    longurl = http.createClient(80, 'api.longurl.org');
    request = longurl.request('GET', "/v2/expand?format=json&url=" +escape(url1),
    {'host': 'api.longurl.org','User-Agent': 'tweetfixer/1.0'});
    request.end();
    request.on('response', function (response) {
        response.setEncoding('utf8');
        response.on('data', function (chunk) {
            new_json = chunk.replace('long-url','longurl');
            data = JSON.parse(new_json);
            new_url = data.longurl;
        });
    });
    
    return data;
}

console.log(unshorten('http://t.co/evsoxUse', function(url) { console.log(url) } ));