Shorten URL with YOURLS

[smoitzheim]

Hi,

 

I was looking for a workflow to shorten URLS with my self-hosted YOURLS installation, but all the workflows I found were pretty old and either the download links didn't work anymore, or they used usr/bin/php, which doesn't seem to work anymore? I'm sure you could get those old workflows to work, but I didn't know how, so I made my own based on the bash script found here. I don't actually know a lot about scripting, there's probably a better way to do this, but this works for me and maybe someone will get some use out of it  

 

To setup, you need to change two lines in the "Run Script" utility, inserting the URL of your YOURLS installation and the signature token from your "Tools" page. 

 

The workflow itself works via the keyword "short", though you can change that of course, and it looks for the URL in your clipboard. The resulting short URL is then again copied to your clipboard. Optionally you can type something after the keyword, so something like "short newlink" would shorten whatever URL you have copied to "http://your.site/newlink" and copy that to your clipboad.

 

You can download the workflow here.

Edited May 12, 2023 by smoitzheim

[Vero]

@smoitzheim Welcome to the forum and thanks for sharing your workflow

 

As a suggestion, you could set up the configuration to be done via the User Configuration feature:

https://www.alfredapp.com/help/workflows/user-configuration/

 

This would mean that users don't need to dig into the Run Script to add their own configuration details.

 

Cheers,
Vero

 

[smoitzheim]

Thank you, good point! I've updated the Workflow, the download link should give you the new version with User Configuration implemented.

[MrSlash]

@smoitzheim the link is broken. Could you re-upload it plz? 

[Stephen_C]

@MrSlash just in case you don't resolve the issue this post may be of interest. If you're using Alfred 5 it's actually very easy to create your own workflow to shorten URLs.

 

Stephen

[smoitzheim]

Link is fixed now.