YOURLS BASH

A simple bash script to shorten URLs with YOURLS

Installation

# using wget
$> wget -q https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SophiaAtkinson/yourls-bash/master/yourls
# using curl
$> curl -s -o yourls https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SophiaAtkinson/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)

Usage

Shorten a long URL :

$> yourls https://someverylongdomain.com
https://sho.rt/ef

Shorten 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": "2021-06-06 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 --help

License

Do whatever the hell you want with it