A Weechat plugin for shortening long URL's. This script uses the URL shortening application at hts.io

short_url.rb

#!/usr/bin/ruby
# Need to add a validation check on URL's -- just don't be ignorant with it :D
require 'mechanize' # Necessary to communicate with the server.
def weechat_init
  Weechat.register('short_url', 'Ninjex', '1.0', 'GPL3', 'Shorten a URL /short_url <link>', '', '')
  Weechat.hook_command('short_url', 'Shorten URL /short_url <link>', '', '', '', 'short_url', '')
  return Weechat::WEECHAT_RC_OK
end

def short_url(data, buffer, args)
  buffer = Weechat.current_buffer
  client = Mechanize.new {|agent| agent.user_agent = 'Short URL -- Ninjex'} # Create a scraping client with a custom user agent.
  client.request_headers = {'Referer' => 'https://www.hackthissite.org'}    # Set the referer for hackthissite.
  client.get('http://hts.io/') do |page|  # Connect the client to the home page of hts.
    shorten_form = page.form_with(:action => '') do |f| # Load the information of the login form.
      f.url = args
    end.click_button # Click the form button to login with the specified credentials. (Too lazy to handle error outputs)
    form_result = shorten_form.body
    form_result.each_line do |line|
      @short_url = line.split('"')[1] if line.include?('Short URL:')
    end
    Weechat.command(buffer, "#{@short_url} (Generated via hts.io")
    return Weechat::WEECHAT_RC_OK
  end
end