How to Integrate Bit.ly With iPhone’s Safari
There are a few apps out there that pull in some basic bit.ly stats, but to my knowledge, there’s no app that allows you to quickly shorten web pages you’re visiting in Safari for the iPhone via bit.ly. Here’s a quick, free, manual way to integrate iPhone/Safari and bit.ly:
You’ll need a desktop computer, and your iPhone.
On a desktop computer:
- Login to your bit.ly account
- Visit the bit.ly “Tools” page
- Scroll down to the “Standard bit.ly Bookmarklet” tool
- Right/option click the link that says “Shorten with bit.ly”
- Choose “Copy Link Location” (Or some variation of that – that’s Firefox language. I think Chrome says “Copy Link Address”)
- You should have a whole pile of JavaScript copied to your clipboard. Paste that into an email and email it to yourself so you can access it on your iPhone
On your iPhone:
- Open the email you sent yourself, copy the block of JavaScript
- Visit bit.ly via Safari
- Bookmark bit.ly in Safari
- Visit your bookmarks, click “edit”
- Click the bit.ly bookmark you just created
- Under the name of the bookmark is the actual URL of the bookmark
- Erase the URL
- Paste in the JavaScript you copied
- Save the bookmark
To shorten your link:
- When you’re on a page you’d like to shorten in Safari, visit your bookmarks
- Click the “bit.ly” bookmark
- A new bit.ly window will open with the shortened link
- Click “copy” and now you’ve got a shortened link to share via whatever app you’d like
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