itty.bitty.site
itty.bitty takes html (or other data), compresses it into a URL fragment, and provides a link that can be shared. When it is opened, it inflates that data on the receiver’s side.
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Advanced
Handcrafted HTML files
Drag one into the editor to convert it.
Using Codepen.io
Paste a codepen URL into the editor. Get started with a template or look at some samples.
Size Limits
While most sites support 2000 bytes, some can handle more.
Hosting
One simple way to host is to forward a domain. Just paste the itty.bitty url in the redirect.
Generating links programmatically
Encoding (Mac)
echo -n 'hello world' | lzma -9 | base64 | xargs -0 printf "https://itty.bitty.site/#/%s\n"
Encoding (Linux)
echo -n 'hello world' | lzma -9 | base64 -w0 | xargs -0 printf "https://itty.bitty.site/#/%s\n"
Encoding (Win Git/WSL)
echo -n 'hello world' | xz --format=lzma -9 | base64 -w0 | printf "https://itty.bitty.site/#/%s\n" "$(cat -)"
Encoding (Python)
'https://itty.bitty.site/#/'+base64.b64encode(lzma.compress(bytes("hello world",encoding="utf-8"), format=lzma.FORMAT_ALONE, preset=9)).decode("utf-8")
Encoding (Node.js)
'https://itty.bitty.site/#/'+Buffer.from(lzma.compress("Hello World", 9)).toString('base64')
Decoding (Mac)
echo -n "[URL]" | sed -E 's/^.*#[^\/]*\/\??//g' | base64 -D | lzma -d
Decoding (Linux)
echo -n "[URL]" | sed -E 's/^.*#[^\/]*\/\??//g' | base64 -d | lzma -d
Decoding (Win Git/WSL)
echo -n "[URL]" | sed 's/^.*#[^\/]*\///g' | base64 -d | xz --format=lzma -d