Dubco - URL Shortener CLI

A command line tool for easily shortening URLs using the dub.co service. ✂️

Quick Demo

demo-dubco.mp4

Warning Demo video uses 'dub', but you need to use 'dubco'.

If the cli does not work as expected, you can try to run dubco login again to refresh your credentials.

Installation

Install dubco globally to access the commands from your terminal:

npm install -g dubco

or if you are using pnpm

pnpm install -g dubco

Usage

Login

You need to run the login command with your Workspace API Key:

dubco login [token]

Example

dubco login dub_Nlaw9TUaeSkGfRii3lmgZLid

Config

To view your current dubco configuration, you can run the config command:

dubco config

link

To create a new short link, you can run the shorten command:

dubco link [url] [shortkey]

This command will take a url and an optional shortkey as arguments and shorten the url using the dub.co API.

Example

dubco link https://example.com/jhondoe/data jhon

If you provide a url but not a shortkey, it will generate a random shortkey using nanoid.

If you do not provide any arguments, it will prompt you to enter a destination url and an optional shortkey.

Credits

Dubco CLI uses the dub.co API to make short links. Visit https://dub.co to manage your links in more advanced ways.