Abstract: A method for automatically shortening one or more Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) via a plug-in or functionality embedded in an operating system. The method may allow a user to initiate a request to shorten the one or more URLs via a command without clicking on the plug-in. An event listener may be initiated to identify the one or more URLs present in a temporary storage location or passed as an argument to an application based on a protocol scheme. The browser plug-in may invoke a call to a first server for shortening the one or more URLs to one or more shortened URLs. Further, the method may replace the one or more URLs in the temporary storage location with the one or more shortened URLs and may return the one or more shortened URLs to the user or pass a shortened URL as an argument to an application upon the launch of the application.