Here’s a link to an AppleScript to take the URL from Safari’s frontmost window and put a tiny URL in your clipboard. Here’s the script. It is useful for stuff like Twitter, or Facebook and so forth where it isn’t functional to have the entire URL. For ubiquitous use you then can make it into a Quicksilver trigger.
[Via Jason Snell]
Tiny URL AppleScript for Safari
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Written by Travis Jeffery on December 19, 2007 at 5:18 pm -
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Categorized in AppleScript Tips, General Tips, Intermediate Tips, Safari Tips - Tags: applescript, safari, tinyurl
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[...] for stuff from IM, to Email and Twitter (got keep it under 140 characters!). In Safari there’s the script that uses the shortURL in an AppleScript that you can put in to Quicksilver trigger. For Firefox [...]
February 8th, 2008 at 4:03 pm