Generating TinyURLs from PowerShell

 

TinyURL is a web service that provides short aliases for long URLs. Here's a function to generate URL aliases using TinyURL's API. The returned URL is short and never expires.

function New-TinyUrl($url){
    (new-object net.webclient).downloadString("http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=$url") 
}

PS > $vug = New-TinyUrl -url http://marcoshaw.blogspot.com/2008/06/windows-powershell-virtual-user-group.html
PS > $vug
PS > http://tinyurl.com/4k9ons

 

Test it in your default browser:

PS > (new-object -com shell.application).open($vug) 

 

-Shay