What Related Tools and URL Shortening Options Are Linked from TextCleanr?

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TextCleanr links to a URL and text shortener powered by the Tiny.tw API, plus a set of companion tools from the same creator: SERPrecon, a semantic SEO tool, TextSendr for sending text messages, NoSlang (an internet slang dictionary), a British-to-American translator, and several SEO and server utilities. These links are useful if you already use TextCleanr for cleanup work and want to move straight into shortening, messaging, or SEO analysis without hunting for separate sites.

URL Shortening on TextCleanr

TextCleanr includes URL handling as one of its cleanup options. When you paste text, the URL setting offers four choices:

  • Leave Them — keep URLs unchanged.
  • Remove Them — strip URLs out of the text.
  • Shorten Them (tiny.tw) — replace URLs with shortened versions.
  • Hyperlink Them — convert URLs into clickable links.

The page states that URL shortening is done using the Tiny.tw API. The same page also points to a separate "URL & Text Shortener" tool for cases where shortening is the main task rather than a side effect of cleaning text.

When to use which option

Your goal Setting to choose
Clean pasted text but keep links intact Leave Them
Prepare plain text with no links Remove Them
Fit long links into a message or post Shorten Them (tiny.tw)
Produce text where links are clickable Hyperlink Them

If you need to shorten many links or shorten text as well as URLs, the dedicated URL & Text Shortener is the more direct route. Use the in-editor option when shortening is incidental to a larger cleanup job.

Related Tools Listed on the Page

The page groups the creator's other utilities under "Related Tools of Mine." They cover different jobs, so pick based on what you need next:

  • SERPrecon — a semantic SEO tool.
  • Semantic SEO Tool — listed alongside SERPrecon for SEO-oriented analysis.
  • TextSendr — send text messages.
  • Tiny.tw — URL and text shortener.
  • NoSlang — internet slang dictionary.
  • British to American Translator — convert British spellings and terms to American ones.
  • Server Header Status Tool — check server response headers.
  • SEO Ngram Tool — analyze word and phrase patterns for SEO.

These are companion utilities rather than features built into the cleaner. TextCleanr itself focuses on formatting cleanup, find and replace, encoding, and text comparison; the linked tools handle messaging, slang lookup, translation, and SEO analysis.

How This Fits with TextCleanr's Main Features

Knowing the related tools helps you decide whether to stay on TextCleanr or jump to a companion page. TextCleanr's own controls cover:

  • Email indents — do nothing or remove.
  • Text case — lowercase, uppercase, capitalize all words, or sentence case.
  • HTML — remove brackets or characters.
  • Line breaks — remove all, convert to new lines, or collapse to single spaces.
  • Spaces — remove extra spaces and tabs, remove all spaces, or trim leading/trailing spaces.
  • MS Word specific characters — leave or replace them.
  • Unicode — leave or remove it.
  • Encoding — MD5, UUencode/UUdecode, and Base64 encode/decode.
  • Find and replace — swap specific strings.
  • Compare Text — view differences between two versions.

A practical example: you paste text copied from an email, remove indents and extra spaces, then choose "Shorten Them (tiny.tw)" so any long links fit in a follow-up message. If the message itself needs sending, TextSendr is the linked next step.

Practical Notes Before You Use the Links

  • The page states that TextCleanr does not save or store any data you enter, so pasting sensitive text into the cleaner is described as safe on that point. That statement covers TextCleanr itself; treat the linked third-party tools according to their own pages.
  • URL shortening depends on the Tiny.tw API, so shortened links are generated through that service rather than inside TextCleanr.
  • The tool is described as a work in progress created by Ryan Jones, so feature sets on companion pages may differ from what the TextCleanr page implies.
  • TextCleanr is presented as web-based and suited to tablets and mobile devices, which makes the linked tools convenient to reach from the same session.

If your task is purely shortening, start with Tiny.tw or the URL & Text Shortener. If your task is cleaning pasted text, use TextCleanr's options first and only follow the related links when you need messaging, translation, slang lookup, or SEO analysis.