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Shortly

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A Ruby wrapper for various url shortener services

Installation

create a dependency in your Gemfile

gem 'shortly' #then run
bundle install

and shortly will be up and running. or gem install shortly

Uses

Currently Shortly supports three services (Bit.ly, Goo.gl, is.gd, tinyurl) Please do cross check by running Shortly.active_services. All supported methods have been provided for all services, so you can expect at least one method(shorten) will be available for every service.

Bit.ly

bitly = Shortly::Clients::Bitly
bitly.shorten('http://justatest.com', {:apiKey => 'R_your_api_key', :login => 'your_login'})

Optionally you can set apiKey and login beforehand (it would be more DRY i think if you only gonna use bitly services).

bitly = Shortly::Clients::Bitly
bitly.apiKey  = 'your_api_key'
bitly.login   = 'your_login'
bitly.shorten('http://justatest.com').url
bitly.expand('http://bit.ly/imshort').long_url

Goo.gl

googl = Shortly::Clients::Googl
googl.shorten('http://justatest.com').shortUrl
googl.expand('http://goo.gl/shrt').longUrl
googl.analytics('http://goo.gl/shrt').analytics

ShortSwitch (Credit 'Steve Price (steveprice67)'. See Credits section)

shortswitch = Shortly::Clients::ShortSwitch
shortswitch.apiKey = '<api-key>'
shortswitch.shorten('http://justatest.com').shortUrl

Is.gd

isgd = Shortly::Clients::Isgd
isgd.shorten('http://justatest.com').shorturl

V.gd

vgd = Shortly::Clients::Vgd
vgd.shorten('http://justatest.com').shorturl

Tinyurl.com

tinyurl = Shortly::Clients::Tinyurl
tinyurl.shorten('http://justatest.com').shorturl

Sn.im

snim = Shortly::Clients::Snim
snim.apiKey = "<apiKey>"
snim.login = "<login>"
snim.shorten(long_url).shortUrl
snim.expand(url_id/shorturl).url

Command Line Utility

Shortly also provides command line utility. See some uses below.

shortly 'http://shortme.com/'

By default it uses Googl to short urls but you can specify which service to use. Type @shortly -h@ for more info

shortly 'http://shortme.com/' -s bitly -l '<your-login>' -p '<your-apiKey>' -m method-to-use

here are options and there possible values:

Options What value do they take
-s or --service Service to use(e.g. bitly, isgd(default googl))
-m or --method Method to use(e.g. expand or shorten or analytics(default shorten))
-l or --login Login credential(required for bitly)
-p or --apiKey API Key credentials (for bitly and googl(optional) only)
Some more examples:

spits formatted json at CLI

Credits

More Info

For detailed info visit my blog http://BagwanPankaj.com

For more info write me at bagwanpankaj[at]gmail.com or me[at]bagwanpankaj.com

Copyright (c) 2010 Bagwan Pankaj: http://bagwanpankaj.com, released under the MIT license

TODO's

  • Better documentation
  • Example series

Contributing to shortly

  • Fork, code, and then send me a pull request.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2010-2016 [Bagwan Pankaj]. See LICENSE.txt for further details.