flic.kr URL shortening
Jul. 4th, 2009 08:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theducksAs part of their twitter integration, flickr have launched a URL shortening service for their photos, so instead of linking to http://www.flickr.com/photos/theducks/3677511038/ , you can link to http://flic.kr/p/6AYcUJ
All well and good. Except, they don't give you any tools to easily shorten URLs, except going to "Blog this", choosing a twitter account, and copying it from there.
So I wrote a nifty little hack to do it.
First you get your flickr photo's URL, like the long one above, and go to http://theducks.org/flic.kr and paste it in.
Or, you can stick "theducks.org/flic.kr/" in front of the address, like http://theducks.org/flic.kr/http://www.flickr.com/photos/23900566@N05/3686283705/
It will then work out the shortened URL, and redirect to a page with an address to this format: "http://theducks.org/flic.kr/p/6BKaHB" .. from where you can just copy the "flic.kr/p/6BKaHB" bit, which is your shortened URL. It also displays the address on the page, so can just copy and paste it from there.
The UI isn't great, but meh.
All well and good. Except, they don't give you any tools to easily shorten URLs, except going to "Blog this", choosing a twitter account, and copying it from there.
So I wrote a nifty little hack to do it.
First you get your flickr photo's URL, like the long one above, and go to http://theducks.org/flic.kr and paste it in.
Or, you can stick "theducks.org/flic.kr/" in front of the address, like http://theducks.org/flic.kr/http://www.flickr.com/photos/23900566@N05/3686283705/
It will then work out the shortened URL, and redirect to a page with an address to this format: "http://theducks.org/flic.kr/p/6BKaHB" .. from where you can just copy the "flic.kr/p/6BKaHB" bit, which is your shortened URL. It also displays the address on the page, so can just copy and paste it from there.
The UI isn't great, but meh.
