BTI-SHRINK-URLS(1)

✨ BTI-SHRINK-URLS ✨

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for bti-shrink-urls (that's the name, and the manual it lives in is the bti-shrink-urls manual, section 1, iykyk) 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

bti [--escaped] [--help] [URL]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

no cap, bti-shrink-urls converts URLs to a shorter form using a web service. that's literally the whole job. it's giving "long link walked so short link could run" 💅

Currently these are the supported services:

• http://2tu.us/ — the default one, main character energy 👑
• http://bit.ly / http://j.mp

💖 OPTIONS 💖

• --escaped — don't escape special characters in the URL any more, because they're already percent encoded. it's already done, bestie, we're not doing it twice 🙈
• --help — print help text. say less, we love a helpful icon ✨
• URL — specify the URL to be converted. and if no URL is given? bti-shrink-urls just waits for input on stdin. it's patient like that. it'll sit there. staring. romantically. 🫶

🎀 CONFIGURATION 🎀

bti-shrink-urls gets configured by setting some values in ~/.bti. yes, home directory, dot-bti, the whole vibe 🏠

• 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 🔑

fr fr, if you pick bit.ly or j.mp and skip the login/key, that's on you — those two are required, not optional, not a suggestion, periodt 💀

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Written by Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net>. iconic, we stan 👑

🌈 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.

and that's the page, bestie!! this was the bti-shrink-urls manual from March 2009, part of the bti-shrink-urls distribution — mwah, take care of her, she's a classic 💖✨🎀