bti-shrink-urls (1) Linux Manual Page
bti-shrink-urls – convert URLs to a shorter form using a web service
Synopsis
- bti [–escaped] [–help] [URL]
Description
Currently http://2tu.us/ (default) and http://bit.ly / http://j.mp are supported.
Options
–escaped- Don’t escape special characters in the URL any more, they are already percent encoded.
–help
- Print help text.
URL
- Specify the URL to be converted. If no URL is given bti-shrink-urls waits for input on stdin.
Configuration
bti-shrink-urls is configured by setting some values in ~/.bti: shrink_host
- Possible values: 2tu.us (default), bit.ly, j.mp
shrink_bitly_login
- API login for bit.ly, j.mp, required if shrink_host is set to bit.ly or j.mp. See https://code.google.com/p/bitly-api/wiki/ApiDocumentation
shrink_bitly_key
- API key for bit.ly, j.mp, required if shrink_host is set to bit.ly or j.mp. See https://code.google.com/p/bitly-api/wiki/ApiDocumentation
Author
Written by Bart Trojanowski bart [at] jukie.net.Copyright And License
Copyright (C) 2009 Bart Trojanowski bart [at] jukie.net.This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation version 2 of the License.