Customized Short URLs in one click

This is an outdated version of this script. There is a newer version available. Read about version 0.2 of ShurlThis!

I love shortcuts. I can’t tell you how much I love shortcuts.

I also hate long URLs.

And I love customization.

Thus, I present the Custom Shurl Bookmarklet. Just drag and drop it onto your Bookmarks Toolbar in Firefox. Hell, it might even work in IE or Safari. I wouldn’t know. I haven’t tested them. Edit: Works in IE 5.2 on the Mac, but not in Safari. It also doesn’t seem to work in IE 6 on the PC.

There are two ways to use this bookmarklet:

  1. Highlight a word or two on your current page and click the bookmarklet. You’ll be taken to the advanced Shurl result page with a link generated using the highlighted words.
  2. Without highlighting anything, click the bookmarklet. You’ll be prompted to enter a word or phrase which will be used to generate the link.

Still don’t understand? Just test it out by clicking this link: Custom Shurl Bookmarklet

I’ve changed all the references above to link to my post with the newest version, but just so I can remember how hilarious it was, here I’ll preserve version 0.1: http://shurl.org/. For example, if you enter ShortcutsRockYeahBabyYeah into the box below, the resulting URL will look like this: http://shurl.org/ShortcutsRockYeahBabyYeah',''))};if(Nm)location.href='http://shurl.org/?url='+escape(location.href)+'&type=advanced&name='+escape(Nm)">Custom Shurl Bookmarklet