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If you share a youtube video, youtube automatically create a shortlink that you can send manually, or via a variaty of different social media plattforms. See screenshot:
I've searched for a joomla plugin that does this task, but all I've found are plugins for creating short URLs and other plugins for social media sharing purposes (e.g. sharethis). Is there a joomla plugin / module that takes combines both tasks at once?
You would need a database table to store the relation between articles and their shortlinks, then you would need a plugin to redirect to the correct page via the shortlink that fires before that page gets loaded.
The project itself wouldn't be too hard, and actually gives me a good idea for a new plugin / component set.
youtube.be works integrated with Youtube. So, they link the short url with videos at once.
Sharethis or similar sharing services don't generate short Urls for every content item you publish. It's only a widget for your page.
You could implement an auto-posting extension (like AutoTweetNG) to generate short urls for every new content item and finally look for a way to show the short url in your content item.
