MakeAShorterLink - Perl interface to makeashorterlink.com
use WWW::MakeAShorterLink; $short_url = makeashorterlink($long_url); $long_url = makealongerlink($short_url);
A Perl interface to the web site makeashorterlink.com (MASL to its friends). MASL simply maintains a database of long URLs, each of which has a unique identifier.
This module is deprecated and will be removed from CPAN at some point in the next year. Its functionality is replaced by WWW::Shorten and its various subclasses.
The function makeashorterlink will call the MASL web site passing it your long URL and will return the shorter MASL version.
makeashorterlink
The function makealongerlink does the reverse. makealongerlink will accept as an argument either the full MASL URL or just the MASL identifier.
makealongerlink
If anything goes wrong, then either function will return undef.
undef
makeashorterlink, makealongerlink
Dave Cross <dave@mag-sol.com>
Original LWP hacking by Alex Page <grimoire@corinne.cpio.org>
makealongerlink idea by Simon Batistoni <simon@hitherto.net>
perl, http://makeashorterlink.com/, WWW::Shorten
To install WWW::MakeAShorterLink, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm WWW::MakeAShorterLink
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install WWW::MakeAShorterLink
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.