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URL shortening service from Google

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How Does The Google URL Shortener Generate A 5 Digit Hash Without Collisions

How can the Google URL shortener generate a unique hash with five characters without collisions. Seems like there are bound to be collisions, where different urls generate the same hash. stackoverflow.com => http://goo.gl/LQysz What's also…
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How to configure dynamic links for a Firebase project?

Since google is shutting down it's url shortening service, I want to move my project to FDL. I am using the api to shorten the url following this: https://firebase.google.com/docs/dynamic-links/rest#create_a_short_link_from_a_long_link and I am…
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Goo.gl URL Shortener Stopped Working (php/curl)

For some reason my script stopped working today. When I look in the API control panel says I still have 100% left of usage. Any ideas? Did they change the auth way? function url_small($url) { //This is the URL you want to shorten …
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How do I goo.gl-shorten a url in js?

Prereq: create yourself an API key for urlshortener at https://code.google.com/apis/console/ There are lots of docs for various ways of turning a goo.gl url into the original URL via the js get api, e g: here, here and here -- and at least the first…
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Using javascript to access Google's URL shortener APIs in a Google Chrome extension

I am writing my first google chrome extension which will use Google's URL shortener api to shorten the URL of the currently active tab in Chrome. I am a longtime sw developer (asm/C++) but totally new to this "webby" stuff. :) I can't seem to figure…
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How do I make a button that gets an external resource AND copies it to the clipboard?

So I have a button that's supposed to make a fancy share URL, shorten it using goo.gl, and then copy that to the clipboard. The great news is, I have successfully done all of that, but just not all at once. The problem stems from the spec: Copy…
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How many unique URL's can goo.gl support?

How many URL's can goo gl support? And what is the current rate at which it is being filled up. I can see that it creates unique URL's using small and big alphabets and numbers. That gives it a capacity of (26*2+10)^5, is this estimate correct.
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RateLimitExceeded shortening URLs using Goog.gl, but usage far below limits?

I'm piping a list of URLs through the Goo.gl link shortener, and have a business account with an API that's being read (when I omit it, I get an un-auth'd error, and I see requests logged in my account) But my rate limit is not being respected?…
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Problems using the goo.gl API from google apps script

I'm trying to query the goo.gl API from inside a Google Apps Script. The problem I'm seeing is the following error message: Request failed for https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url?key=AIXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXLmGJQw returned code 400. Server…
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Posting to goo.gl from Android

Keep getting this: V/RESPONSE(13605): { V/RESPONSE(13605): "error": { V/RESPONSE(13605): "errors": [ V/RESPONSE(13605): { V/RESPONSE(13605): "domain": "global", V/RESPONSE(13605): "reason": "parseError", V/RESPONSE(13605): …
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Is it possible to add og tags to url generated by goo.gl url shortner

We are using goo.gl URL shortner to shorten the links. Is there a way to add open graph meta tags to show the rich links for the URL on share.
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Programmatically Generating goo.gl/maps Short Urls

When installed on iOS and Android phones, the Google Maps application registers to handle links of the form "https://goo.gl/maps/linkHash" (iOS Universal Linking or Android Deep Linking). These links directly open in the application if it is loaded,…
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twilio sms, can't send goo.gl links in message

I'm trying to send out some sms messages via php, using twilio, that have some short text ads at the end, which include a link. I'm shortening the links with the google url shortener to keep the message length down. The problem, is that, twilio…
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General url shortener decoder library for PHP

Is there any kind of library for PHP which can decode tinyurl, Goo.gl, bit.ly and other url shortened urls without making CURL requests?
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Formatting url to generate goo.gl short url

How do a form a url to generate a goo.gl short url? In bit.ly can do this with: http://api.bit.ly/shorten?t=1&version=2.0.1&login=bitlyspreadsheets&apiKey=(api_key)&format=text&longUrl=http://www.google.com Working off the documentation for goo.gl…
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