Comments on: TextExpander: Nice AppleScript Shortcut for bit.ly

By: macpug

macpug — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 09:53:51 +0000

Just. Wow.
That is too freakin’ awesome! Thanks for an amazing tip!
Copied the whole post into Evernote – you know, for posterity and all
Cheers!!

By: Jean

Jean — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:33:51 +0000

That’s cool. It can only work in text fields in that front-most Safari window, so it wouldn’t work for pasting in bit.ly URLs into twitter.com in Safari, but great for Twitterific!

By: mar

mar — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:22:55 +0000

Or if you’re shrinking the URL of your front-most Safari window, you don’t even have to select/copy it:
tell application "Safari"


	set PageURL to URL of front document
end tell
set curlCMD to ¬

	"curl --stderr /dev/null \"http://bit.ly/api?url=" & PageURL & "\""
-- Run the script and get the result:

set bitlyURL to (do shell script curlCMD)

return bitlyURL