URL Shortener is a Chrome extension developed to shorten the long URLs.
Generally some url links are very lenthy and its hard to share them with anyone, so using this tool you can create a short url which is easy to share on any platform.
- Download this Repository as ZIP (as shown in below image).
- Extract the ZIP file into a seperate folder.
- Open Chrome browser then goto More tools -> Extensions or you can enter chrome://extensions/ in the browser url section.
- Switch on the Developer Mode then Click on Load unpacked and select the extracted folder.
- The installation is completed 👍 .
In order to use this extension first we need to setup few more things, those are:
- Open website T.ly
- Signup on this website then login to the website.
- Click on Generate API Token or navigate to Generate API Token
- Provide any userfriendly token name and click on create.
- Notedown the API Token generated here.
- Right click on the Extension and click on Options
- Enter the API token (Generated in the above steps) and click Save.
- Now the configuration needed for tool is completed.
Click on the extension(URL Shortener Chrome Extension) from chrome extensions, it opens the below popup.
Here provide the long URL that you want to shorten and click on Create. for eg: I have provided the below long URL https://github.com/YadaGiriReddy/URL-Shortener-Chrome-Extension
And it generated the short URL (you can use it)
