Comments on: How to shorten urls with bit.ly in Ruby on Rails. http://coryschires.com/how-to-shorten-urls-with-bit-ly-in-ruby-on-rails/ Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:13:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Giovanni http://coryschires.com/how-to-shorten-urls-with-bit-ly-in-ruby-on-rails/comment-page-1/#comment-816 Giovanni Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:47:03 +0000 http://coryschires.com/?p=307#comment-816 It worked! Thanks. I think I'll implement my own URL shortner (to track and analyze as much URLs as I can) but this is a faster solution by now! It worked! Thanks.
I think I’ll implement my own URL shortner (to track and analyze as much URLs as I can) but this is a faster solution by now!

]]> By: Bashar http://coryschires.com/how-to-shorten-urls-with-bit-ly-in-ruby-on-rails/comment-page-1/#comment-495 Bashar Sat, 09 Oct 2010 08:41:56 +0000 http://coryschires.com/?p=307#comment-495 Thanks dude... Quick and simple :) Latest version is 3.0 and the short version would be if you only want short url bitly_url = "http://api.bit.ly/v3/shorten?longUrl=#{url}&login=#{user}&apiKey=#{apikey}&format=txt" # parse result and return shortened url shorten_url = open(bitly_url, "UserAgent" => "Ruby-ExpandLink").read Thanks dude… Quick and simple :)

Latest version is 3.0 and the short version would be if you only want short url

bitly_url = “http://api.bit.ly/v3/shorten?longUrl=#{url}&login=#{user}&apiKey=#{apikey}&format=txt”

# parse result and return shortened url
shorten_url = open(bitly_url, “UserAgent” => “Ruby-ExpandLink”).read

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