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Revision: 40309
at January 29, 2011 14:45 by insanedreamer
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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

uri = STDIN.gets(nil).strip.delete("\n\r")
unless uri.empty?
  begin
	escaped_uri = URI.escape("http://api.bit.ly/v3/shorten?login=yourlogin&apiKey=yourapikey&longUrl=#{uri}&format=txt")
    STDOUT << Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(escaped_uri)).body
  rescue URI::InvalidURIError
    # Do nothing.
  end
end
Initial URL 

                                

                                                            

                                    

                                        

                                        Initial Description
                                        

                                    

                                    
Place script into Automator (select "Run Shell Script" choose /usr/bin/ruby as the shell).

You'll need to create a bit.ly account which will give you your API key for authentication.

                                

                                                            

                                    

                                        

                                        Initial Title
                                        

                                    

                                    
OSX service to shorten URLs

                                

                                                            

                                    

                                        

                                        Initial Tags
                                        

                                    

                                    
ruby, osx

                                

                                                            

                                    

                                        

                                        Initial Language
                                        

                                    

                                    
Ruby