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.
makeashorterlink
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.
makealongerlink
If anything goes wrong, then either function will return undef.
undef
Shashank Tripathi <shank@shank.com>
Chase Whitener capoeirab@cpan.org
capoeirab@cpan.org
Dave Cross dave@perlhacks.com
dave@perlhacks.com
See the main WWW::Shorten docs.
WWW::Shorten, http://shorl.com/
To install WWW::Shorten::SnipURL, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm WWW::Shorten::SnipURL
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install WWW::Shorten::SnipURL
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.