YOURLS BASH Listed in Awesome YOURLS!
A simple bash script to shorten URLs with YOURLS
# using wget $> wget -q https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ozh/yourls-bash/master/yourls # using curl $> curl -s -o yourls https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ozh/yourls-bash/master/yourls
Then, edit the two parameters at the beginning of the script (YOURLS_HOST and YOURLS_KEY) to match your setup.
Depending on your setup, you may want to make this file executable (chmod +x yourls) and in your $PATH (eg ~/bin maybe)
Shorten a long URL :
$> yourls https://someverylongdomain.com
https://sho.rt/efShorten a long URL and provide a custom keyword and a custom title :
$> yourls https://someverylongurl.com -k test12 --title "Some title" https://sho.rt/test12
Shorten a URL and receive JSON output, for instance to display with jq :
$> yourls https://example.com -f json | jq { "url": { "keyword": "Nzs", "url": "https://example.com", "title": "Example Domain", "date": "2021年06月06日 16:03:44", "ip": "127.0.0.1" }, "status": "success", "message": "http://example.com added to database", "title": "Example Domain", "shorturl": "http://sho.rt/Nzs", "statusCode": 200 }
Display help message :
$> yourls --helpDo whatever the hell you want with it