lnk
A command-line URL-shortening client for bitly, tinyurl and goo.gl.
How a smart dev (you) shortens a URL:
But lnk is MORE. lnk can also expand short URLs:
$ lnk -e http://bit.ly/1NWAPWn
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ http://bit.ly/1NWAPWn => http://google.com/ │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────┘Get all sorts of awesome stats and metrics for a URL:
$ lnk stats -i http://bit.ly/1NWAPWn
┌───────────────────────────────┐
│ URL: http://bit.ly/1EHdqZq │
│ Referrers: │
│ + Since forever: │
│ - Direct: 503 │
│ - http://bit.ly/1EHdqZq: 1 │
│ Clicks: │
│ + Since forever: 504 │
│ Countries: │
│ + Since forever: │
│ - United States: 197 │
│ - United Kingdom: 50 │
│ - Germany: 45 │
│ - France: 27 │
│ - Canada: 20 │
│ - Netherlands: 16 │
│ - Russian Federation: 12 │
│ - Australia: 11 │
│ - Spain: 10 │
│ - Brazil: 9 │
└───────────────────────────────┘Tell you about yourself:
$ lnk user -a
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Full Name: Peter Goldsborough │
│ Login: goldsborough │
│ Member Since: Wed Aug 26 13:57:00 2015 │
│ Link privacy: public │
│ ... │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘And what you've been up to:
$ lnk history --last 4 days
┌────────────────────────────┐
│ Last 4 days: │
│ + http://bit.ly/1OQM9nA │
│ + http://bit.ly/1Km6CB1 │
│ + http://bit.ly/1OQLTov │
│ + http://on.fb.me/1OQHeD0 │
└────────────────────────────┘lnk is your fast, complete and sweet destination for shortening URLs and everything connected to it.
Installation
Whoop:
$ pip install lnkdee-doo.
Documentation
Documentation for the project's source alongside a detailed description of how to effectively use lnk can be found here.
One thing to document here: the "l" in lnk is a small letter "L" (short for "link").
License
lnk is released under the MIT License.
Authors
Peter Goldsborough & cat
