On any webpage, this add-on adds a new
item in the right click menu called “Copy Short URL”. When you click it, the add-on looks for a canonical short URL exposed by the website itself or creates its own.
A number of major websites expose their own short URLs for any entry on their webpages, among these: youtube (“
youtu.be/…”),
Wordpress.com, Arstechnica, Techcrunch, and many more.
If, however, the site does not name its own short URL, the add-on automatically falls back to making a short URL using a URL shortening service of your choice (see the extension settings screen). The default is currently
is.gd.
After a fraction of a second, you end up with a
short URL in your clipboard, ready to be used in tweets, emails, forum posts, or wherever else you please.
Created with Mozilla's new Web Extension interface.
This add-on is licensed under an Apache license. The source code is available on github. Contributions welcome!
Note: I am not in any way affiliated with the shortener services and have chosen their service for the fallback functionality purely arbitrarily because they expose a convenient REST API for me to use.