As mentioned in header Shortly is a cleaner Ruby wrapper for various url shortener services. It support maximum number of url shortener services out there huh(excluding url shortener services whose own url are not even short. Believe me they are many).
Before you compare Shortly to any other gem let me tell you that I did not build it to be used it only with “Rails”,(although you can use it if you want..) that means it is framework agnostic. I build it to put many terminal freaks(or homesick) (that’s what I love to call terminal people) at ease, So next time they want their url shortened, can use terminal (no need to fire a bloddy web browser taking a load of time just to start, so that they can login, get their url short.)
Installation
Oh please don’t ask this silly question you grown ups. But for newbie, fire up a terminal and type
Supported Services
Many services are supported as listed
Goo.gl
Bit.ly
J.mp
Is.gd
V.gd
Sn.im
Tinyurl This does not seem tiny at all
ShortSwitch For domain that uses this like lg.gd
Be sure to cross check by #!ruby Shortly.active_services
Uses.
Command Line Utility
Shortly provides command line utility. See some uses below:
shortly 'https://shortme.com/' #uses googl service and shorten method by defaultBy default it uses Googl to short urls but you can specify which service to use. Type shortly -h for more info
shortly ‘https://shortme.com/’ -s bitly -l -p -m method-to-usehere are options and there possible values:
Options What value do they take
-s or —service Service to use(e.g. bitly, isgd(default googl))
-m or —method Method to use(e.g. expand or shorten or analytics(default shorten))
-l or —login Login credential (required for some services only)
-p or —apiKey API Key credentials (required for some services only)some more examples
IRB or ruby utility mode
You can use these utilities to any ruby environment
Note: We are developing many other services to stay tuned on github and RubyGems
Thanks.
About The Author
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