A Firefox extension to quickly create a short URL for the current page and copy it to the clipboard.
Home Page: https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/copy-shorturl
License: Apache License 2.0
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Every relevant OS now has a OS-specific notification function that's also used for webnotifications and such. We can remove the hybrid/fallback approach and just use that.
... and maybe load that document in the background to determine the canonical URL of the target?
Though this could have side effects. Hmmmm
From https://twitter.com/vegos/status/648646007136382976
@fwenzel Copy ShortURL: rel-shorturl rel-shortlink exist both. Reuters has even data-share-short-url="" attribute. Parse for all possible?
Jetpack SDK 0.7 has /will have clipboard support. Should use that instead of a third-party library (nothing personal, Erik :) ).
Babelzilla isn't picking this up right yet, even though that'd help getting this translated. Time to figure out why.
That's right! jetpack-sdk has a test suite, so we should use it.
I always wanted to make a cross-platform extension. I wonder what it takes.
Some sites only do Facebook's opengraph. That's silly, but it's still a better alternative than falling back to the current document URL when present.
Example:
http://www.oregonlive.com/dining/index.ssf/2014/02/top_101_american_restaurants_l.html
From https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/copy-shorturl/reviews/908193/reply
Would be nice if I could disable the pop-up or set a pop-up time though. Maybe an option for the future?
Notifications have become commonplace since I started this, I can now trust the SDK will do what it promises.
Time to dramatically simplify the notification code.
When shortening, need to make sure not to use the current URL but the canonical URL if such a header exists.
I am running Firefox 10.0.2 on Ubuntu 10.10. I was having problems with Firefox continously crashing after the 10.0.0 update. I gradually went through all my add-on's, disabling them and enabling them. I narrowed it down to Copy ShortURL causing Fx to crash. Whenever I have Copy ShortURL enabled, Fx crashes within a few seconds of loading. When I disables Copy ShortURL, it stopped crashing. I tried removing Copy ShortURL and re-installing it, this didn't solve the problem.
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console.error: copy-shorturl:
Message: Module `sdk/deprecated/tab-browser` is not found at resource://gre/modules/commonjs/sdk/deprecated/tab-browser.js
Stack:
CuddlefishLoader/options<.load@resource://gre/modules/commonjs/sdk/loader/cuddlefish.js:79:18
@resource://jid0-odikjs9b4it3h1nylpkr0ndtlue-at-jetpack/copy-shorturl/lib/simple-notify.js:4:20
CuddlefishLoader/options<.load@resource://gre/modules/commonjs/sdk/loader/cuddlefish.js:79:18
@resource://jid0-odikjs9b4it3h1nylpkr0ndtlue-at-jetpack/copy-shorturl/lib/main.js:4:16
CuddlefishLoader/options<.load@resource://gre/modules/commonjs/sdk/loader/cuddlefish.js:79:18
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Handler.prototype.process@resource://gre/modules/Promise-backend.js:867:23
this.PromiseWalker.walkerLoop@resource://gre/modules/Promise-backend.js:746:7
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Not sure how, I suppose I'll have to request blanket cross-origin XHR permission for that.
The add-on's notifications should be localizable.
When are you going to support e10s? Currently CSurl doesn't work with e10s. The Nightly build will be turning on e10a in a week or two.
Jetpack SDK 0.7 has /will have clipboard support. Should use that instead of a third-party library (nothing personal, Erik :) ).
I'd like to see some visual feedback that the short URL was successfully copied/created.
On a Mac, I would prefer Growl. I don't know if there are similar frameworks for Windows, Gnome, KDE, etc.
How about a settings page that lets you add as many services as you need, and will cause a menu item to show up for each of them?
The Copy ShortURL icon is very simple, but it's not a vector icon and thus I don't have better high-resultion pictures. Fixable!
I'm not sure exactly which part doesn't work, but at least on Minefield on Windows, something's very wrong. The context menu item isn't there, the pref in about:config isn't there. Is it working for Minefield on Mac?
From https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/copy-shorturl/reviews/594774/reply
The new bit.ly URL is: https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v3/shorten?format=txt&login=xxxxx&apiKey=xxxxx&longUrl=%URL%
Should double check (incl. what happens to j.mp and custom domains) and update the docs.
https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/copy-shorturl/reviews/730624/reply
the option to set goo.gl as the default shortener hasn't worked for a while, which hasn't been a problem since I don't use it myself but Im sure theres people who'd like to.
Bugs on bugzilla.mozilla.org automatically have a short URL like: http://bugzil.la/543210 . It's not exposed, but we could special-case it.
In about:addons, the author information is missing. Instead, the author's ID (112675) is displayed.
There's code to import settings from when there was not preferences API yet etc.
That's been around for so many versions now that no current user is likely to hit that code ever again. Time to remove it.
Creating a URL on addons.mozilla.org is throwing an error:
Error: Missing host permission for the tab
Hmmm.
I don't know if this is limited to bit.ly/j.mp, but the URL comes back with a newline character at the end. It should be safe to trim white space from both ends of the URL.
Unlike many others, goo.gl does not appear to have a plain text HTTP GET API. That makes sense, semantically, but requires more code to do the POST, and parse the JSON reply.
A good solution would probably be generic enough that it doesn't just special-case Google.
From a review:
It does not work on Firefox 48.0.1 and 50.0a2.
After check, I found that it is the is.gd problem.
It migrate to HTTPS only, but this addons still use HTTP.
https://is.gd/news.php
Extension does not seem to work in Firefox 26 beta (as of 2013-11-01).
From Issue #57:
For certain sites it might make total sense to enable arbitrary selectors? NY times, for instance has:
<span class="story-short-url"><a href="http://nyti.ms/2cjHxN9">http://nyti.ms/2cjHxN9</a></span></header>
And Reuters has:
<div class="core-share nav-share" data-share-short-url="http://reut.rs/2cAuJjc" ...>
Some canonical short URLs aren't short. In that case, a generated shorturl is probably better.
A heuristic could be: "if the pseudo-short canonical URL is longer than x characters, obtain a "shorturl" from the shortening service, then compare sizes and return the shorter one".
Pick a sensible default "x" and add a config window to let people change that value.
OR, Mossop suggests: "if the page offers its own just give two menu options perhaps".
I have no idea how to do this with Jetpack (or if it's currently possible) but this add-on should have an options dialog -- not only to make it easier to pick a custom shortening service URL, but also for future settings.
I'm a big fan of a non-cluttered context menu and I've removed addons before because they added extra options to context menus I didn't need.
When right clicking on links, the only additional option available should be 'Copy ShortURL for this link'.
(I remember when the Mozilla Suite's context menu literally filled the screen (top to bottom) because it contained all possible options rather than being, well, contextual.)
Browser user conventions now train the user to expect menus to be contextual in this manner and beyond being more cluttered (IMO) this can be a bit confusing. In fact, previously I used this option when right clicking a link thinking I was getting the shortURL for that link (before the link menu was added).
is.gd is much shorter than tinyurl.com, and they have a key-less API too:
Should switch to that. If we use the preference-service, users can change it on their owns later if they want to.
I like to follow the statistics of the URL's I creat with Bit.ly and so I would like all my short URL's to be created with Bit.ly. It would be nice to have an option in Copy ShortURL that allows you to ignore the canonical short URL provided but the website and always use the chosen shortening service.
If the URL to be shortened contains URL parameters, those are lost during the is.gd transformation process.
auto copy title when short url
The shorten requests are currently done synchronously in privileged code. That sounds like a bad idea for browser performance. No reason why that has to be the case, so let's switch to async requests.
There's no need for copy-shorturl to be unavailable in private browsing mode. We need to opt-in to enable that.
Open https://addons.mozilla.org/zh-CN/firefox/ ,right click Copy ShortURL, but do not have result.
Hi!
When I install the add-on, the locale remains in English. Perhaps changing the folder name to "sl" would work, since the "general.useragent.locale" setting in Slovenian Firefox is "sl".
Best regards,
Peter
To make it as easy as possible to copy the short URL for the current page, the extension should have a keyboard shortcut. If that's possible.
Cmd + Shift + C, maybe? (Though CacheViewer uses the same, so, hmmm.)
utm_* campaign tracking tokens make URLs extremely ugly and are useless for the purpose of short URLs.
I personally don't like it, but some people (judging by reviews I read on the net) seem to prefer a toolbar button over a context menu item. Should add the option to add one, though I am not currently considering making it the default.
This is very low priority, but keeping it here so I don't forget.
Also, patches welcome :)
Youtube simply adds something like ?t=2m7s to the end of short URLs in order to start a video at that particular time.
Please consider adding an additional item to the context menu for youtube pages that will preserve the current time. By my count it takes five clicks to copy the URL for the current time with youtube's method.
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