bitcli

Simple CLI tool for URL shortening via Bitly

Setup a config file with your Bitly API token and run:

$ bitcli https://example.com
https://bit.ly/4ePsyXN

Installation

Cargo

Requirements: rustc >= 1.74

cargo install --locked bitcli

Note: Until published to Crates.io, install from git source.

cargo install --locked --git https://github.com/matyama/bitcli.git

Configuration

The configuration is a TOML file and at minimum must contain an api_token string.

Example config file $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/bitcli/config.toml which uses an import for sensitive information (auth info):

import = ["auth.toml"]

# Cache directory (optional, empty path disables caching)
# cache_dir = "/path/to/cache/bitcli"

# Default domain (optional)
domain = "bit.ly"

Imports can be either absolute paths, or relative to the directory of the main config file (or relative to the home directory using ~).

For instance, in the example above, one would create a protected credentials file $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/bitcli/auth.toml with

# API token
api_token = "<API TOKEN>"

# Default group GUID (optional)
default_group_guid = "<DEFAULT GROUP GUID>"

# Maximum number of API requests in flight (default: 16)
max_concurrent = 16

Then you can read-protect just a portion of the config (e.g., chmod 600 auth.toml) and share the rest.