Yet Another Short URL.
I just launched s.hort.cc to offer something that TinyURL and Tiny.cc didn’t: an easy API for creating short URLs, or “s.hort.cuts,” and returning them in a format my program could use.
You can visit the s.hort.cc website, of course, but you can also create a short URL and have it returned to you in XML, JSON, YAML, or plain text. (Even if you decide to parse the whole XHTML page, it’s easy to find the s.hort.cut with the DOM or an XPath parser.) I’ll gladly add other formats if people suggest them.
I’m working on a Firefox extension, but in the meantime, drag this link: s.hort.cut to your bookmarks toolbar to automagically turn the current page into a s.hort.cut.
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