A simple library to use URL shortening services. Inspired by Robby Russell's shorturl.

As a dependency in shards.yml:

dependencies:
  shorturl:
    github: veelenga/shorturl.cr
    branch: master

As easy as it could be:

require "shorturl"

# shorten
ShortURL.shorten "http://google.com"           # => "http://tinyurl.com/2tx"
ShortURL.shorten "http://google.com", :tinyurl # => "http://tinyurl.com/2tx"
ShortURL.shorten "http://google.com", :isgd    # => "http://is.gd/OwycZW"

# expand
ShortURL.expand "http://tinyurl.com/2tx"       # => "http://google.com"

As an addition, shorturl binary available for you:

$ crystal build bin/shorturl && ./shorturl -h
Usage: shorturl [arguments]
    -u URL, --url=URL                URL to be shortened
    -s SERVICE, --service=SERVICE    Shortening service
    -V, --verbose                    Verbose output
    -v, --version                    Version
    -h, --help                       Prints this help

$ ./shorturl http://google.com
http://tinyurl.com/2tx

Here is a list of available shortening services in shorturl.cr:

• is.gd
• shorl.com
• tinyurl.com
• v.gd

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch
3. Implement your feature
4. Run tests with crystal spec
5. Commit your changes
6. Push to the branch
7. Create a new Pull Request