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Bit.ly is an URL-shortening service

Bitly is an URL-shortening service, which provides an extensive API for programmers to easily integrate URL-shortening services into their own applications. Bitly's API supports JSON and XML, and allows retrieving statistics about specific short URLs.

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Parsing JSON from XmlHttpRequest.responseJSON

I'm trying to parse a bit.ly JSON response in javascript. I get the JSON via XmlHttpRequest. var req = new XMLHttpRequest; req.overrideMimeType("application/json"); req.open('GET', BITLY_CREATE_API + encodeURIComponent(url) +…
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How do short URLs services work?

How do services like TinyURL or Metamark work? Do they simply associate the tiny URL key with a [virtual?] web page which merely provide an "HTTP redirect" to the original URL? or is there more "magic" to it ? [original wording] I often use URL…
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jQuery on the fly URL shortener

I'm looking for an on the fly URL shortener much like how tweetdeck works. I have found many jQuery and general javascript plugins that take a url and run it through a shortening service such as bit.ly when a button is pressed. However, I have not…
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Using Only Javascript To Shrink URLs Using The Bit.ly API

I'm playing a bit with Javascript these days... I was shrinking some URLs using bit.ly to tweet them, then I started to think on a automated process that could use their API to shrink the URLs I wanted, then I looked up on their documentation, and I…
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Python: Convert those TinyURL (bit.ly, tinyurl, ow.ly) to full URLS

I am just learning python and is interested in how this can be accomplished. During the search for the answer, I came across this service: http://www.longurlplease.com For example: http://bit.ly/rgCbf can be converted…
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Which HTTP redirect status code is best for this REST API scenario?

I'm working on a REST API. The key objects ("nouns") are "items", and each item has a unique ID. E.g. to get info on the item with ID foo: GET http://api.example.com/v1/item/foo New items can be created, but the client doesn't get to pick the ID.…
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Bit.ly bitlink creation always return forbidden even after email verification?

I have registered and done email verification. Then, I try the most baisc API trying to shorten a testing link. The following is my HTTP packet. POST /v4/shorten HTTP/1.1 Host: api-ssl.bitly.com Content-Type: application/json Authorization: Bearer…
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Integrate to Bit.ly API Version 4 - How to Generate OAuth2 Token to integrate with Bit.ly API V4 and create a shortened url?

I was having the hardest time trying to generate the OAuth2 token to integrate with the Bitly API v4. Their documentation was hard to comprehend and I couldn't find much online or on StackOverflow on how to accomplish it. I was able to get it to…
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How to get long URL from short URL?

Using Ruby, how do I convert the short URLs (tinyURL, bitly etc) to the corresponding long URLs?
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Is it possible to generate custom bit.ly URLs through their API?

I would like to be able to generate custom bit.lys (http://bit.ly/thecakeisalie type things) through their API. This does not appear to be possible, but I thought I'd check; does anyone happen to know otherwise?
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Automatically shortening URL for Email/Facebook shares with Bitly through AddThis API

I am unable to shorten the URL being shown in the AddThis email popup when using the built-in Bit.ly shortening service in AddThis. It works with Twitter, but not Facebook and email. Is this supported? var addthis_share = { url:…
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c# shortening string for url

i want to uniquely shorten strings-file ids to use in urls like the ones on bit.ly etc. I can use ids from a db but i want urls to be random like. what would be the best solution? site will be a mobile site so i want to it to as short as possible
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Javascript Regex: surround @_____, #_____, and http://______ with anchor tags in one pass?

Related (but slightly different): Surrounding all instances of @________, #___________, and http://_________ with anchor tags? I would like to surround all instances of @_______, #________, and http://________ with anchor tags in one pass. For…
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How to shorten URL using PHP Bitly v4?

I have this code for Bitly v3 and it is working well.
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Convert eBay Link Generator results into bitly.com link

I managed a small PHP script that takes the eBay product searched and converts it into promote eBay link. It goes like this: user searches for example: ocz vertex clicks on "Submit" and gets the results in following…
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