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+chrome.commands.onCommand.addListener(function(command){ // Keyboard shortcut trigger - Shorten current tab
+	if(command == "shortenTab"){
+		chrome.tabs.query({active: true, currentWindow: true}, function(tabs){
+			var current = tabs[0]
+			shortenTabURL(current.id);
+		});
+	}
+});
+
+chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(function(tab){ // Shorten current tab when icon pressed
+	chrome.tabs.query({active: true, currentWindow: true}, function(tabs){
+		var current = tabs[0]
+		shortenTabURL(current.id);
+	});
+});
+
+
+function showAlert(text){
+	var opt = {
+		type: "basic",
+		title: "Fox.ci URL Shortener",
+		message: text,
+		iconUrl: "../icons/icon128.png"
+	}
+	chrome.notifications.create('foxci-chrome', opt, function(id){});
+}
+
+function copyToClipboard(text){
+	var clipboard = document.getElementById("clipboard");
+	clipboard.value = text;
+	clipboard.focus();
+	clipboard.select();
+	document.execCommand("copy");
+}
+
+function testURL(s) { // Stolen from http://stackoverflow.com/a/17726973 since I suck at RegExp - Returns true(bool) on good looking link
+    var regexp = /(http|https):\/\/(\w+:{0,1}\w*@)?(\S+)(:[0-9]+)?(\/|\/([\w#!:.?+=&%@!\-\/]))?/;
+    return regexp.test(s);    
+}
+
+function shortenTabURL(tabid){ // Use just a tab id to shorten its url
+	chrome.tabs.get(tabid, function(tab){
+		shortenURL(tab.url);
+	});
+}
+
+function shortenURL(url){ // Creates a short url and copies it to clipboard
+	if(testURL(url)){
+		//var url = encodeURIComponent(url);
+		sendAPIRequest("?url=" + url, function(req){
+			var res = JSON.parse(req);
+			var status = res.statuscode;
+			var linkID = res.shortcode;
+
+			switch(status){
+				case "100": // Sucessful new shorten
+					copyToClipboard("http://fox.ci/"+linkID);
+					showAlert("Link shortened. Short link copied to clipboard!\nYour link is: http://fox.ci/"+linkID);
+					break;
+				case "101": // Sucessful lookup of existing link
+					copyToClipboard("http://fox.ci/"+linkID);
+					showAlert("Existing link found - Short link copied to clipboard!\nYour link is: http://fox.ci/"+linkID);
+					break;
+				case "201": // No URI provided - /Should/ never show up here
+					showAlert("It appears that you didn't submit a link to fox.ci.\nTry again?");
+					break;
+				case "202": // Attempted to shorten unsupported URI - As of 3/13/2015 http(s) only
+					showAlert("You tried to shorten an unsupported URL.\nhttp and https links only please.");
+					break;
+				case "203": // URL failed to resolve - Host could be down, or formatting problem
+					showAlert("Unable to verify your link exists. Is it online?");
+					break;
+
+				default: // Unexpected response from server, has the API been updated?
+					showAlert("I got an unexpected response.\nThis could be a hiccup in the network, or the API has changed.");
+					break;
+			}
+		});
+	}
+}
+
+function sendAPIRequest(url, callback){ // Sends a GET request to the server
+	var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
+	req.open(method, "http://fox.ci/api/" + url, true);
+	req.onload = function(){
+		callback(req);
+	};
+	req.send();
+}
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