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:
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:tinyurl
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:shorl
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:snipurl
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:metamark
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:makeashorterlink
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:skinnylink
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:linktrim
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:shorterlink
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:minlink
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:lns
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:fyad
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:d62
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:littlink
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:clipurl
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:orz
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:moourl
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:urltea
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:vurl
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:bitly
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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¶ ↑
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Marcel Molina Jr., Devin Mullins for some ideas
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imperator from #ruby-lang (I don’t know your real name, sorry) for helping me with creating and uploading a RubyGem
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Daniel Dipaolo for telling me about ln-s.net and fyad.org
Authors¶ ↑
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Vincent Foley (original developer)
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Robby Russell <robbyrussell@gmail.com>