Alternatively, you can try a Python-based library to extract or scrape data from different web pages.

Let's hack together some code in the Python programming language to shorten our URLs from the command line. This will go great in conjunction with our newly made Twitter command-line application.

You could do this with Applescript but honestly you are better off using a language more optimized for text processing like Python or Perl. Applescript is great for controlling applications.