-# create small urls via tinyurl.com using wget, grep and sed
-zurl() {
- [[ -z ${1} ]] && print "please give an url to shrink." && return 1
- local url=${1}
- local tiny="http://tinyurl.com/create.php?url="
- #print "${tiny}${url}" ; return
- wget -O- \
- -o/dev/null \
- "${tiny}${url}" \
- | grep -Eio 'value="(http://tinyurl.com/.*)"' \
- | sed 's/value=//;s/"//g'
+# Create small urls via http://tinyurl.com using wget(1).
+function zurl() {
+ [[ -z ${1} ]] && { print "USAGE: zurl <URL>" ; return 1 }
+
+ local PN url tiny grabber search result preview
+ PN=${0}
+ url=${1}
+# Check existence of given URL with the help of ping(1).
+# N.B. ping(1) only works without an eventual given protocol.
+ ping -c 1 ${${url#(ftp|http)://}%%/*} >& /dev/null || \
+ read -q "?Given host ${${url#http://*/}%/*} is not reachable by pinging. Proceed anyway? [y|n] "
+
+ if (( $? == 0 )) ; then
+# Prepend 'http://' to given URL where necessary for later output.
+ [[ ${url} != http(s|)://* ]] && url='http://'${url}
+ tiny='http://tinyurl.com/create.php?url='
+ if check_com -c wget ; then
+ grabber='wget -O- -o/dev/null'
+ else
+ print "wget is not available, but mandatory for ${PN}. Aborting."
+ fi
+# Looking for i.e.`copy('http://tinyurl.com/7efkze')' in TinyURL's HTML code.
+ search='copy\(?http://tinyurl.com/[[:alnum:]]##*'
+ result=${(M)${${${(f)"$(${=grabber} ${tiny}${url})"}[(fr)${search}*]}//[()\';]/}%%http:*}
+# TinyURL provides the rather new feature preview for more confidence. <http://tinyurl.com/preview.php>
+ preview='http://preview.'${result#http://}
+
+ printf '%s\n\n' "${PN} - Shrinking long URLs via webservice TinyURL <http://tinyurl.com>."
+ printf '%s\t%s\n\n' 'Given URL:' ${url}
+ printf '%s\t%s\n\t\t%s\n' 'TinyURL:' ${result} ${preview}
+ else
+ return 1
+ fi