chauncey

chauncey

Shorten URLs with Bitly.

Usage: chauncey <url> [options]

Options:
  -h, --help  Show help

Example:
  chauncey http://google.com/  Shorten http://google.com/ using Bitly

"Chauncey"?

Chauncey McPufferson is Bitly's mascot :smiley:

Installation

$ npm i -g chauncey

Configuration

First you need a Bitly developer access token. Then you'll need to add the token to your user environment, for example:

$ BITLY_ACCESS_TOKEN=[access token] chauncey http://google.com/

You can also use a .chaunceyrc file. Chauncey will look for .chaunceyrc starting in process.cwd(), then ../, ../../, all the way up to the filesystem root. It should have the following content:

export BITLY_ACCESS_TOKEN=[access token]

Usage

Chauncey will output the shortened URL to stdout:

$ chauncey http://google.com/
http://bit.ly/1jib0Hi

So on OS X, you can do stuff like:

$ chauncey http://google.com/ | pbcopy

API

TODO: what if someone

chauncey(url, [token], [callback])

Shortens url using the Bitly API.

Arguments

• url - The URL to shorten.
• token - Optional Bitly developer access token. If not passed, chauncey will look for token as described in configuration.
• callback - Optional
• callback(err, results) - Optional A callback which is called after all the iterator functions have finished, or an error occurs. Results is an array containing the concatenated results of the iterator function.

Note: the callbacks do not take an error as their first argument.

Example

async.every(['file1','file2','file3'], fs.exists, function(result){
    // if result is true then every file exists
});

export default ({ url, token, done = () => {} }) => {

try { token = token || findToken(); } catch (error) { return done(error); }

https.get( https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v3/shorten?access_token=${token}&longUrl=${url}&format=txt, (res) => res.pipe(concat({ encoding: 'string' }, (res) => done(null, res))) ).on('error', done);

};

function findToken() { habitat.load(findNearest('.chaunceyrc')); const token = habitat.get('BITLY_ACCESS_TOKEN'); if (!token) throw new Error('BITLY_ACCESS_TOKEN not found'); return token; }

Note

This module uses the Bitly API, but is neither developed nor endorsed by Bitly.

License

MIT