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shorturl

0.07
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There's a lot of open issues
Shortens URLs using services such as RubyURL, urlTea, bit.ly, moourl.com, and TinyURL
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~> 3.0
 Project Readme

ShortURL 1.0.0¶ ↑

Summary¶ ↑

ShortURL is a very simple library to use URL shortening services.

Installation¶ ↑

ShortURL is available as a gem, installation is just like any other gem: $ gem install shorturl

You can also download the tar.bz2 archive at rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=732 if you do not want to use the gem.

Supported services¶ ↑

Here is the list of the services supported by ShortURL:

Usage:¶ ↑

call-seq:

require "shorturl"
puts ShortURL.shorten("http://mypage.com")
puts ShortURL.shorten("http://mypage.com", :moourl)

The second parameter represents the service you want to use. These are:

  • :tinyurl

  • :shorl

  • :snipurl

  • :metamark

  • :makeashorterlink

  • :skinnylink

  • :linktrim

  • :shorterlink

  • :minlink

  • :lns

  • :fyad

  • :d62

  • :littlink

  • :clipurl

  • :orz

  • :moourl

  • :urltea

  • :vurl

  • :bitly**

You can use ShortURL.valid_services to obtain a list of the valid services (in case I forget to update the documentation)

Bitly**


Their API changed to require an API key.

Two painfree steps to fix this.

1) Get yours easily right now from:

http://bitly.com/a/your_api_key

2) Save it in ~/.shorturl similar to this YAML template:

— Start of file ~/.shorturl —

---
bitly:
  username: O_adsfasdfasfasfd
  key: R_afasdfasdfasdf

— END of file ~/.shorturl —

You're done!  Have a martini.  Cheers.

Thanks¶ ↑

  • Marcel Molina Jr., Devin Mullins for some ideas

  • imperator from #ruby-lang (I don’t know your real name, sorry) for helping me with creating and uploading a RubyGem

  • Daniel Dipaolo for telling me about ln-s.net and fyad.org

Authors¶ ↑

  • Vincent Foley (original developer)

  • Robby Russell <robbyrussell@gmail.com>