LinkShrink

A Ruby Gem and Command-Line Application for shrinking those long and nasty links into a shorter URL

• Google
• TinyUrl
• IsGd
• Owly
• Karmacracy
• More to come...

$ gem install link_shrink

You can use any shrinker listed without worrying about the api key except for Owly and Karmacracy. Google let's you use its api without an api key, but providing one will generate metrics in their dashboard.

Works best with a Google URL API key. You can sign-up for a free one at Google URL API

1. In the Services pane, activate the Google URL Shortener API; if the Terms of Service appear, read and accept them.

2. Go to the API Access pane. The API key is near the bottom of that pane, in the section titled "Simple API Access."

Sign-up for a free API key at Owly.

Sign-up for a free API key at Karmacracy.

Set your apikey as an environment variable:

$ export GOOGLE_URL_KEY='your_api_key_here'

$ export OWLY_URL_KEY='your_api_key_here'

$ export KARMACRACY_URL_KEY='your_api_key_here'
$ export KARMACRACY_USERNAME='your_username_here'

You could also save it in your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.zshrc

Ruby:

require 'link_shrink'

LinkShrink.shrink_url("http://www.ruby-lang.org")
=> "http://goo.gl/QuXj"

To change the default shrinker (Google API):

LinkShrink.configure do |c|
  c.api = 'IsGd'
end

# or

LinkShrink::Config.api = 'TinyUrl'

LinkShrink.shrink_url('http://www.google.com')
=> "http://tinyurl.com/1c2"

In your terminal:

$ linkshrink http://www.rubyrogues.com
http://goo.gl/Noh9X

$ linkshrink --tinyurl http://www.rubyrogues.com
http://tinyurl.com/k2butj9

$ linkshrink --isgd http://www.rubyrogues.com
http://is.gd/6ZNRWe

$ linkshrink --owly http://www.rubyrogues.com
http://ow.ly/22rwSe

Shrinkers:

• -t, --tinyurl - use TinyUrl API
• -i, --isgd - use Is.gd API
• -om --owly - use Owly API
• -g, --google - use Google API (Default)
• -k --karmacracy - use Karmacracy API

Additional options:

• -h, --help - show help message

• Batch list (with selected api or specified for operation)
• Save to file (html, text)
• Bitly Shrinker API
• Parallel HTTP Requests

• Jonah Ruiz

If you have any questions, ideas or jokes:

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request