Features

Shortly is a handy URL shortener with support to native shorteners. With simply one click, Shortly will bring you the short link of your current browsing webpage, giving you youtu.be for YouTube videos, flic.kr for Flickr photos, wp.me for WordPress.com blogs and other short links of your choice.

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Just one-click.

Shortly will add a button to your Safari toolbar. Just simply click, and you'll get the link.

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Link natively.

Take advantage of the native short links. Shortly supports youtu.be, flic.kr, and the newly added wp.me from WordPress.com 3.0 blogs.

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Toolbar or Alert.

You can enable Toolbar Mode in the extension preferences to get your results displayed in a toolbar. By default, Shortly will display in an alert box.

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More than one language.

Shortly supports English, Chinese, Japanese, French and Italiano to make its interface more easy to use.

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Preferences

You can choose your preferred service for shortening, and decide whether to use toolbar mode in the extension preferences. Just reach the preferrences via "Safari > Preferences…" and go to the "Extension" tab.

Choose your service

Choose the shorten service you want from goo.gl, bit.ly and tinyurl at the drop menu.

Toggle Toolbar mode

Check the Toolbar mode checkbox to receive your shortlink in a toolbar displayed on the top.

bit.ly Integration

Enter your bit.ly account info to save history in your account or use your own custom domain for shortlinks with your bit.ly pro account.

Your API key can be found in your bit.ly settings page.

Furthur details

Supported Service

  • goo.gl
  • bit.ly
  • bit.ly pro
  • tinyurl.com
  • youtu.be
  • flic.kr
  • wp.me

Supported Languages

  • English
  • Traditional Chinese
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Japanese (by Aurcinus)
  • Italiano (by Raffaele Viggiani)
  • Français (by François MARCEAU)

Can Shortly automatically copy the URL to clipboard?

No it can't. Due to security reasons, Safari only give access to the clipboard when you are really cutting, copying or pasting. Shortly cannot modify the clipboard for you.

Developer's notes

  • Shortly would not record any of your personal information.
  • Shortly supports the rel="shortlink" proposal. Please visit its project page for more information on implementing native shortlinks on your site.
  • Localization not available in extension preference due to Safari limitations.