This extension allows posting the shortened url to several services like Twitter or delicious, and also enables to save the original url in the great service provided by our friends of Blogmarks, a social bookmarking platform.
Moreover, this extension has been open-sourced, and is available on GitHub. Feel free to contribute!
Google just opened their Goo.gl URL Shortener to the public, and in honor of the occasion, I whipped up a Safari Extension that will quickly shorten the URL of the currently open tab using Google’s service. The Goo.gl Safari Extension is free and (mostly) open source.
Tweeting has never been easier…
- Simply click on SafariTweet Toolbar Button
- No new Windows or Tabs
- A tweet box is displayed in your current window
- Customizable Look & Feel
- Supports 4 popular URL shorteners
Make It Short is a URL shortener for Safari. Just click the toolbar button or choose “Make It Short” from a contextual menu, and a shorter URL for the page will pop up. Copy it and paste it anywhere you like—Twitter, Facebook, an email, or whatever.
Where possible, it uses canonical shortlinks (things like flic.kr and youtu.be; otherwise it uses your bit.ly or CloudApp account (or is.gd or TinyURL if you prefer those services). A great extension from the company behind Delivery Status. If only it offered a keyboard shortcut—preferably configurable—it would be perfect.
Ly is pronounced as [li]. It is a simple URL shortener based on bit.ly and supports multiple languages. Get the ink out of your linky and make it Ly!
Quickly get an is.gd shortened URL from a link. Just right-click on it and select is.gd.It from the contextual menu, or shift-click on the link.
The best link (URL) shortening extension for Safari 5. It supports a dozen different shortening services. And it allows you to tweet your short links directly to Twitter from right inside Safari 5.
You can click the toolbar button to shorten the link of the current page.
If you hold down the [option] key while clicking the toolbar button you can short the link and tweet that short link (as well as any other text you want to add) right to Twitter. No copy/paste necessary.
Shortenz Linkz also adds contextual menus to help you shorten links in the current page. So if you right click on any link in a web page you can shorten that link or even shorten and tweet that link.
No other shortening extension has more features or supports more services.
Is.gd URL Compressor by David Jones
Compresses/Shortens links using the Is.gd service. Three options: 1. Popup prompt box for quick copying 2. Direct to a new message in email client (uses the mailto: method) 3. Combo of both (see below)
Goo.gl URL Shortener by Neo Lee
This is a toolbar button extension. When you browse a page, click on the button and it will bring you a confirm dialog including the page title and the shortened goo.gl URL which you can copy & paste.
Shortly URL Shortener by Zhusee Zhang
Quickly shorten the url of your current browsing page with youtu.be for YouTube videos, flic.kr for Flickr photo pages and goo.gl for other pages. Shortly will add a button to your toolbar.
I’ll admit I’m hoping the developer will add support for Tumblr’s short URLs.
