WWW::Shorten::Bitly(3)

NAME
WWW::Shorten::Bitly - Interface to shortening URLs using <http://bit.ly>

VERSION
$Revision: 1.14 $

SYNOPSIS
WWW::Shorten::Bitly provides an easy interface for shortening URLs using http://bit.ly. In addition to shortening URLs, you can pull statistics that bit.ly gathers regarding each shortened WWW::Shorten::Bitly uses XML::Simple to convert the xml response for the meta info and click stats to create a hashref of the results.

WWW::Shorten::Bitly provides two interfaces. The first is the common "makeashorterlink" and "makealongerlink" that WWW::Shorten provides. However, due to the way the bit.ly API works, additional arguments are required. The second provides a better way of retrieving additional information and statistics about a bit.ly URL.

use WWW::Shorten::Bitly;

my $url = "http://www.example.com";

my $tmp = makeashorterlink($url, 'MY_BITLY_USERNAME', 'MY_BITLY_API_KEY'); my $tmp1 = makealongerlink($tmp, 'MY_BITLY_USERNAME', 'MY_BITLY_API_KEY');

or

use WWW::Shorten::Bitly;

my $url = "http://www.example.com"; my $bitly = WWW::Shorten::Bitly->new(URL => $url, USER => "my_user_id", APIKEY => "my_api_key");

$bitly->shorten(URL => $url); print "shortened URL is $bitly->{bitlyurl}\n";

$bitly->expand(URL => $bitly->{bitlyurl}); print "expanded/original URL is $bitly->{longurl}\n";

my $info = $bitly->info(); say "City referred to is " . $info->{calais}->{city}->{item}; say "Companies referred to are " . $info->{calais}->{company}->{item}[0] . "and " . $info->{calais}->{company}->{item}[1]; say "Title of the page is " . $info->{htmlTitle};

my $clicks = $bitly->clicks(); say "Total number of clicks received: " . $clicks->{clicks}; say "Total number of direct clicks received are: " . ${$clicks->{referrers}->{nodeKeyVal}[0]}->{direct}

FUNCTIONS

  new
Create a new bit.ly object using your bit.ly user id and bit.ly api key.

my $bitly = WWW::Shorten::Bitly->new(URL => "http://www.example.com/this_is_one_example.html", USER => "bitly_user_id", APIKEY => "bitly_api_key");

to use bit.ly's new j.mp service, just construct the bitly object like this: my $bitly = WWW::Shorten::Bitly->new(URL => "http://www.example.com/this_is_one_example.html", USER => "bitly_user_id", APIKEY => "bitly_api_key", jmp => 1);

  makeashorterlink
The function "makeashorterlink" will call the bit.ly API site passing it your long URL and will return the shorter bit.ly version.

bit.ly requires the use of a user id and API key to shorten links.

j.mp is not currently supported for makeashorterlink

  makealongerlink
The function "makealongerlink" does the reverse. "makealongerlink" will accept as an argument either the full bit.ly URL or just the bit.ly identifier. bit.ly requires the use of a user name and API Key when using the API.

If anything goes wrong, then the function will return "undef".

j.mp is not currently supported for makealongerlink

  shorten
Shorten a URL using http://bit.ly. Calling the shorten method will return the shortened URL but will also store it in bit.ly object until the next call is made.

my $url = "http://www.example.com"; my $shortstuff = $bitly->shorten(URL => $url);

print "biturl is " . $bitly->{bitlyurl} . "\n"; or print "biturl is $shortstuff\n";

  expand
Expands a shortened bit.ly URL to the original long URL.

  info
Get info about a shortened bit.ly URL. By default, the method will use the value that's stored in $bitly->{bitlyurl}. To be sure you're getting info on the correct URL, it's a good idea to set this value before getting any info on it.

$bitly->{bitlyurl} = "http://bit.ly/jmv6"; my $info = $bitly->info();

say "City referred to is " . $info->{calais}->{city}->{item}; say "Companies referred to are " . $info->{calais}->{company}->{item}[0] . "and " . $info->{calais}->{company}->{item}[1]; say "Title of the page is " . $info->{htmlTitle};

  clicks
Get click thru information for a shortened bit.ly URL. By default, the method will use the value that's stored in $bitly->{bitlyurl}. To be sure you're getting info on the correct URL, it's a good idea to set this value before getting any info on it.

$bitly->{bitlyurl} = "http://bit.ly/jmv6"; my $clicks = $bitly->clicks();

say "Total number of clicks received: " . $clicks->{clicks}; say "Total number of direct clicks received are: " . ${$clicks->{referrers}->{nodeKeyVal}[0]}->{direct}

  errors

  version
Gets the module version number

FILES
$HOME/.bitly or _bitly on Windows Systems.

You may omit USER and APIKEY in the constructor if you set them in the .bitly config file on separate lines using the syntax:

USER=username APIKEY=apikey

AUTHOR
Pankaj Jain, "<pjain at cpan.org>"

BUGS
Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-www-shorten-bitly at rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=WWW-Shorten-Bitly <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=WWW-Shorten-Bitly>. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT
You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc WWW::Shorten::Bitly

You can also look for information at:

•   RT: CPAN's request tracker

    http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=WWW-Shorten-Bitly <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=WWW-Shorten-Bitly>

•   AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

    http://annocpan.org/dist/WWW-Shorten-Bitly <http://annocpan.org/dist/WWW-Shorten-Bitly>

•   CPAN Ratings

    http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/WWW-Shorten-Bitly <http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/WWW-Shorten-Bitly>

•   Search CPAN

    http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-Shorten-Bitly/ <http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-Shorten-Bitly/>

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

http://bit.ly for a wonderful service.
Larry Wall, Damian Conway, and all the amazing folks giving us Perl and continuing to work on it over the years. =item Mizar, "<mizar.jp@gmail.com>", Peter Edwards, "<pedwards@cpan.org" >>, Joerg Meltzer, "<joerg@joergmeltzer.de>" for great patches.

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2009 Pankaj Jain, All Rights Reserved <http://blog.linosx.com>.
Copyright (c) 2009 Teknatus Solutions LLC, All Rights Reserved <http://www.teknatus.com>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY
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SEE ALSO
perl, WWW::Shorten, <http://bit.ly>.