This is an Automator's URL Shortening service, this gets the selected URL from any application and shorten it using the bittly.com API. You must create a new service workflow from automator and paste the code in a **Run shell script** action of automator. Don't forget update the LOGIN and APY_KEY This is useful to shorten the urls from Dropbox a…

AutomatorShorten.sh

# Gets the input
URL="$(cat)";

# Encode the url using php
URL=$(php -r "echo urlencode('$URL');")

# Shorts the url using bitly api and copy to clipboard
curl -s "http://api.bitly.com/v3/shorten?login=LOGIN&apiKey=APY_KEY&longUrl=$URL&format=txt" | pbcopy

# Plays a sound when finishe
afplay '/Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Resources/New Mail.aiff'

# Prints the results
echo $(pbpaste)