ngevan/twzer

A URL shortening and expanding cli tool.

Twzer

Looking to shorten a URL like iamtheproudownerofthelongestlongestlongestdomainnameinthisworld.com? Or see what's behind a mysterious http://bit.ly/2zMSEXP? Look no further! Twzer is a URL shortening and expanding tool accessible right from the command-line.

Installation

If you don't have yarn installed, enter:

npm install -g yarn

If you're ahead of the curve, enter the following to make twzer global:

  yarn global add twzer

Or if you prefer npm:

  npm install --global twzer

Usage

Twzer gives you two commands: shorten a link or expand a shortened link. Along with each command are two options: use Bitly or Google as the client.

Examples

Shorten a link using Bitly with --bitly or -b:

  twzer sh -b https://example.com

Expand a link using Google with --google or -g:

  twzer ex -g https://goo.gl/F0pE

If you need help, just run with --help or -h:

  twzer --help

Testing

Run yarn test or npm test.

Updates

Check CHANGELOG for all updates.

What the twzer?

Twzer is pronounced as 'twiz-er'. Like Twizzler, but without the 'L'.

Why the funky name?

This project was originally called tweezer, but an npm package already existed with that name. I tried 😅.

Contributing

Suggestions, bug reports and pull requests are encouraged for those who would like to take part in improving this tool.

License

MIT license - see LICENSE for details.

twzer's Issues

Feature Request: Provide a way to input multiple URL and get the expanded URL in table format or CSV format

The command twzer expand google.com command produces a table. In my case I want to expand bunch of bit.ly urls. Due to the output format (table decoration) it is not much useful output.

for url in `cat bitly.csv`
do
   echo "$url `twzer expand $url` \n" >> urls.txt
done

The urls.txt is not very useful.

May be adding another option:
twzer bare expand google.com just spits http://google.com