googl-api¶ ↑

A very simple Ruby wrapper for the Google Url Shortener.

• service - goo.gl

• api docs - code.google.com/apis/urlshortener/index.html

gem install googl-api

Create a googl client using your API key and/or with ClientLogin auth information. (note: you will need to “Activate” the “URL Shortener API” on this page to retrieve and user your api_key: code.google.com/apis/console/b/0/#project:1090911256926:overview )

googl = GooglApi.new(:api_key => 'your_api_key', :email => 'google_email', :password => 'valid_password')

Then use the client to shorten, extend or review the analytics for a URL. If authentication is provided the short_url provided will be specific to the given user and will show up in the users history.

googl.shorten('http://www.google.com')
googl.expand('http://goo.gl/fbsS')
googl.analytics('http://goo.gl/fbsS') or googl.analytics('http://goo.gl/fbsS', 'FULL')

These methods will return a response object containing the short/long url and other values provide by the API

To access a users history you must provide authentication information

googl = GooglApi.new(:email => 'google_email', :password => 'valid_password')
googl.history

This method returns a hash containing the authenticated users history

• TODO: implement analytics and history response objects

• TODO: implement oauth

Code heavily inspired/influenced by philnash’s bitly gem github.com/philnash/bitly

• Check out the latest master to make sure the feature hasn’t been implemented or the bug hasn’t been fixed yet

• Check out the issue tracker to make sure someone already hasn’t requested it and/or contributed it

• Fork the project

• Start a feature/bugfix branch

• Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution

• Make sure to add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.

• Please try not to mess with the Rakefile, version, or history. If you want to have your own version, or is otherwise necessary, that is fine, but please isolate to its own commit so I can cherry-pick around it.

Copyright © 2011 John Allen. See LICENSE.txt for further details.