Tinify - a tiny script to make urls tiny

Question

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)

Answer 1

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)