1. Grab your “secret signature token” from the Tools page in yourls.

2. Create a shell script, short-url.sh in your ~/bin directory (or wherever). Yes, we could just drop this script into TextExpander, but it’d be nice to be able to use this script in other contexts.

   #!/bin/bash
   id="YOURLS_SECRET_TOKEN_HERE"
   curl --silent -o - "http://YOURLS_URL_HERE/yourls-api.php?signature=$id&action=shorturl&format=simply&url=$1" | \
      awk -F# '{gsub(/ /,"");print ($1) }'
   

3. Create a new “Shell Script” snippet in TextExpander, which calls the script we just made:

   #!/bin/bash
   ~/bin/short-url.sh "%clipboard"
   

4. Enjoy.

If you want to do this for the public link shortening services, like bit.ly, is.gd, or tinyurl, you should check out ttscoff‘s project on GitHub.

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