tinify - a tiny script to make urls tiny

Heller_Barde · 2009-02-17 13:16:57

I wrote a small script to make urls tiny quickly. dependencies are curl and xclip (for convenience)
there are two possible ways to use this:
1. copy an url to the X clipboard, run the script (e.g. through a hotkey) and immediately paste the tinyurl again.
2. pass an URL as the first and only argument and tadaa, there is the tinified url on STDOUT (and also in the clipboard)

#!/bin/sh
#
# title: tinify
# author: Philip Stark
# desc:  pass an url as the first and only argument to make it tiny or 
#        leave it away and it takes the content of the clipboard by
#        calling xclip. 
# licenced under the WTFPL (http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/)
 
if [ "$1" = "" ]; then
  tinyurl=$(curl http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=$(xclip -selection clipboard -o) 2> /dev/null)
  echo $tinyurl;
  echo $tinyurl | xclip -selection clipboard -i;
else
  url=$1;
  tinyurl=$(curl http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=${url} 2> /dev/null)
  echo $tinyurl;
  echo $tinyurl | xclip -selection clipboard -i;
fi

version without xclip dependency (to keep it simple ):

#!/bin/sh
# title: tinify
# author: Philip Stark
# desc:  pass an url as the first and only argument to make it tiny or 
#        leave it away and it takes the content of the clipboard by
#        calling xclip. 
# licenced under the WTFPL (http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/)
[ "$1" == "" ] && echo "Usage: tinify url" && exit
url=$1;
tinyurl=$(curl http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=${url} 2> /dev/null)
echo $tinyurl;

have fun
cheers Barde

Last edited by Heller_Barde (2009-02-17 18:50:05)

HashBox · 2009-02-17 13:37:36

Handy! I just might have to use this

Runiq · 2009-02-17 15:03:37

You may want to post this here for increased fame.

That being said, I'll be using it too.

scj · 2009-02-17 16:09:43

What is the point of licensing small helper scripts like this? de minimis non curat lex and all that.

dolby · 2009-02-17 16:32:53

Does the size of the script matter? Its still someones work.

scj · 2009-02-17 16:42:46

dolby wrote:

Does the size of the script matter? Its still someones work.

Are you kidding?

Heller_Barde · 2009-02-17 18:34:53

i was actually kinda kidding about the licensing. it was very late and i was very tired so I decided i wanted to do a little bit of effort and make a real description and a license. it was even funnier considering the tinyness of the script

cheers Barde

Last edited by Heller_Barde (2009-02-17 18:35:14)

Xyne · 2009-02-17 18:44:24

I have to agree that I thought slapping a license on a few simple lines of code was quite disturbing, however useful the code might be... until I read the license and laughed.

The copyright line though...

Mr Green · 2009-02-17 18:46:20

Nice script thanks for sharing

Heller_Barde · 2009-02-17 18:49:45

Xyne wrote:

The copyright line though...

true, now that i am not tired anymore, it makes no sense anymore brb, gotta steal a line from my own script

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