I noticed that Twitter search lets you expand URLs from some of the most popular shortening services (though, if they used LongURL they could support a whole lot more ). I liked their UI approach; it’s clear, simple, and effective. So I pretty much mimicked their UI for my plugin.

So here it is, you can add support for LongURL to your site in just a few lines of code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.6/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://longurl.org/static/jquery.longurl.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
    $('a').longurl();
});
</script>

Yup, that’s it. Also, if you don’t like the Ajax working indicator that I chose, you can use your own like so:

$(function() {
    $('a').longurl({working_image: 'http://example.com/images/ajaxy_animation.gif'});
});

So, that’s how you use the plugin. You can see a demo of it in action, and download it from the jQuery site. Hope you find it useful.