WWW::Shorten::SnipURL - Perl interface to http://SnipURL.com
use strict;
use warnings;
use WWW::Shorten 'SnipURL'; # recommended
# use WWW::Shorten::SnipURL; # also available
my $long_url = 'http://www.foo.com/bar/';
my $short_url = makeashorterlink($long_url);
$long_url = makealongerlink($short_url);
WARNING: http://snipurl.com does not provide an API. We must scrape the resulting HTML.
* Also, their service has been up and down quite a bit lately. We have disabled live tests due to this.
* You have been warned. We suggest using another WWW::Shorten service.
A Perl interface to the web service http://SnipURL.com. The service maintains a database of long URLs, each of which has a unique identifier or nickname. For more features, please visit http://snipurl.com/features.
WWW::Shorten::SnipURL makes the following functions available.
my $short = makeashorterlink('http://www.example.com/');
The function makeashorterlink will call use the web service, passing it
your long URL and will return the shorter version.
my $long = makealongerlink('ablkjadf2314sfd');
my $long = makealongerlink('http://snipurl.com/ablkjadf2314sfd');
The function makealongerlink does the reverse. makealongerlink
will accept as an argument either the full URL or just the identifier.
If anything goes wrong, then either function will return undef.
Shashank Tripathi [email protected]
- Chase Whitener
[email protected] - Dave Cross
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See the main WWW::Shorten docs.