[Solved] How to make an Instant Shorten link for a url shortener

Question

Usually a bookmarklet something like this is used:

javascript:u=encodeURIComponent(location.href);s="http://urlshortener.com/shorten.php?url="+u;window.open(s,'shortened','location=no,width=400,height=300');

That takes the URL of the current page and opens a new window pointing to urlshortener.com/shorten.php?url=[the url to be shortened]. The code used by YOURLS is more complicated, but probably does approximately the same thing. You just need to change the URL that the new window opens to in the code above.

Accepted Answer

Usually a bookmarklet something like this is used:

javascript:u=encodeURIComponent(location.href);s="http://urlshortener.com/shorten.php?url="+u;window.open(s,'shortened','location=no,width=400,height=300');

That takes the URL of the current page and opens a new window pointing to urlshortener.com/shorten.php?url=[the url to be shortened]. The code used by YOURLS is more complicated, but probably does approximately the same thing. You just need to change the URL that the new window opens to in the code above.