bti-shrink-urls - convert URLs to a shorter form using a web service

Author

       Written by Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net>.

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

Copyright And License

       Copyright (C) 2009 Bart Trojanowski <bart@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.

bti-shrink-urls                                    March 2009                                 BTI-SHRINK-URLS(1)

Description

       bti-shrink-urls converts URLs to a shorter form using a web service.

       Currently http://2tu.us/ (default) and http://bit.ly / http://j.mp are supported.

Name

       bti-shrink-urls - convert URLs to a shorter form using a web service

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.