So, if I didn’t forget to upload a zip archive or to press a “Commit” button, it should be all here for you: the GPL’d URL shortener I wrote about earlier that Lester Chan and I have been using for a while now.
Our URL shortener service is called YOURLS, as in Your Own URL Shortener. It’s all GPL, free, do-what-you-want-with-it. Lester is running it on his own domain lc.sg, I’m running it on ozh.in, and it’s fun :)
A companion for YOURLS is a WordPress plugin (of course) that will generate short URLs for your posts when you publish them, and promote them on your Twitter account. You’ll like the plugin even if you’re not running your own YOURLS as it’s also designed to work with tr.im, bit.ly, is.gd and tinyurl.com for maximum fun.
Get YOURLS, then get the plugin: YOURLS: WordPress to Twitter
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pingback on 15/Aug/09 at 2:09 am # :
[...] plugin that can automate the creation of Yourl-generated short links for each and every post, and a bookmarklet generator for those who don’t want to head back to their own site to create new short [...]
commented, on 13/Aug/09 at 8:38 am # :
Heiko » Nice catch, I’ll work on this.
said, on 13/Aug/09 at 4:53 am # :
Works beautifully! Thanks, jarbo.
replied, on 13/Aug/09 at 12:47 am # :
I noticed a bunch of people are looking for bookmarklets for YOURLS, so I created a script to do just that. You can grab it @ http://jarb.ro/M
Installation instructions are included in the package.
Enjoy!
thought, on 12/Aug/09 at 9:30 pm # :
Yeah, I figured that out after I posted here by looking at the code on your wordpress-plugin where you pass variables to the api.
Now I have a bookmarklet and a hacked together Firefox plugin using yourls!
said, on 12/Aug/09 at 3:33 pm # :
Ozh – Great app! One question, though: Is there a bookmarklet version available, either officially or from a contributor? Love the WP plugin, too.
wrote, on 12/Aug/09 at 8:21 am # :
Ozh » Thanks, my Mac didn’t showed the file because of the point in front of the filename…
But i find a real bug. if you enter a url with conatains “http://” twice, YOURLS don’t save the first “http://”. try it yourself with “http://ad.zanox.com/ppc/?12545695C1170483212T&ULP=[[http://www.fotokasten.de/index.php?ftkPage=categories&category=55&source=de_zanox]]&SIDE=[[sem-fototasse]]”. If i edit the url directly in the database evertyhing is fine.
commented, on 12/Aug/09 at 7:49 am # :
jarbro » ow yeah my bad, I forgot to update the api-sample file when I introduced this. You need to add action=shorturl for instance. Look in file yourls-api.php
commented, on 11/Aug/09 at 11:37 pm # :
Whenever I try and pass something to the API I always get the following error:
Missing parameter “action”
replied, on 11/Aug/09 at 10:54 pm # :
Heiko » the YOURLS package contains a .htaccess file, it’s all you need