Drupal - Shorten URLs

Shorten URLs module provides an API to shorten URLs via almost any service like tinyurl (at least 15 services are available by default), as well as a block to provide easy UI access to that API. To avoid dependance on external services, additionally install Short URL lets drupal be shortener on itself.

Default length of long URL in the shortener record table was 255 and not enough in some case, so I increased it to 511 (commit 612).

See review of URL shorteners (looks like bit.ly and cli.gs are winners). bit.ly does not let track URLs entered via API, while cli.gs does. Both have bugs with cyrillic encoding in URLs. Somewhere I have read that tinyurl.com was banned and tr.im is being sold. However tinyurl.com and cli.gs work fine with quoted printable cyrillic in URLs.