WWW::Shorten - Interface to URL shortening sites.

Author

       Iain Truskett "spoon@cpan.org"

Bugs, Requests, Comments

       Please  submit  any  issues  <https://github.com/p5-shorten/www-shorten/issues>  you  might   have.    We
       appreciate all help, suggestions, noted problems, and especially patches.

       *  If you know of a shorten service that we don't already have, make your own service and release it as a
       separate module, like WWW::Shorten::Googl or WWW::Shorten::Bitly.  Alternatively, you can let us know and
       we'll be happy to work it up for you.

Contributors

       •   Alex Page -- for the original LWP hacking on which Dave based his code.

       •   Ask Bjoern Hansen -- providing WWW::Shorten::Metamark

       •   Chase Whitener "capoeirab@cpan.org"

       •   Dave Cross dave@perlhacks.com -- Authored WWW::MakeAShorterLink on which this was based

       •   Eric Hammond -- writing WWW::Shorten::NotLong

       •   Jon and William (wjr) -- smlnk services

       •   Kazuhiro Osawa "yappo@cpan.org"

       •   Kevin Gilbertson (Gilby) -- TinyURL API information

       •   Martin Thurn -- bug fixes

       •   Matt Felsen (mattf) -- shorter function names

       •   Neil Bowers "neilb@cpan.org"

       •   PJ Goodwin -- code for WWW::Shorten::OneShortLink

       •   Shashank Tripathi "shank@shank.com" -- for providing WWW::Shorten::SnipURL

       •   Simon Batistoni -- giving the `makealongerlink` idea to Dave.

       •   Everyone else we might have missed.

       In 2004 Dave Cross took over the maintenance of this distribution following the death of Iain Truskett.

       In 2016, Chase Whitener took over the maintenance of this distribution.

Deprecation Notice

       The following shorten services have been deprecated as the endpoints no longer exist or function:

       •   WWW::Shorten::LinkToolbot

       •   WWW::Shorten::Linkz

       •   WWW::Shorten::MakeAShorterLink

       •   WWW::Shorten::Metamark

       •   WWW::Shorten::TinyClick

       •   WWW::Shorten::Tinylink

       •   WWW::Shorten::Qurl

       •   WWW::Shorten::Qwer

       When version 3.100 is released, these deprecated services will not be part of the distribution.

Description

       A Perl interface to various services that shorten URLs. These sites maintain databases of long URLs, each
       of which has a unique identifier.

License And Copyright

       Copyright (c) 2002 by Iain Truskett.

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

Name

       WWW::Shorten - Interface to URL shortening sites.

Shorten App

       A  very  simple program called shorten is supplied in the distribution's bin folder. This program takes a
       URL and gives you a shortened version of it.

Synopsis

         #!/usr/bin/env perl
         use strict;
         use warnings;

         use WWW::Shorten 'TinyURL'; # Recommended
         # use WWW::Shorten 'Bitly'; # or one of the others

         # Individual modules have have their own syntactic variations.
         # See the documentation for the particular module you intend to use for details

         my $url = 'https://metacpan.org/pod/WWW::Shorten';
         my $short_url = makeashorterlink($url);
         my $long_url  = makealongerlink($short_url);

         # - OR -
         # If you don't like the long function names:

         use WWW::Shorten 'TinyURL', ':short';
         my $short_url = short_link($url);
         my $long_url = long_link( $short_url );