NAME

shorten - CLI program to demonstrate use of WWW::Shorten

SYNOPSIS

# Default shortening service is Metamark
$ shorten books.perl.org/book/171
http://xrl.us/dv8

# Change with an environment variable
$ SHORTEN_SERVICE=TinyURL shorten books.perl.org/book/171
http://tinyurl.com/ye7gjf4

# Change with command line option
$ shorten --service=TinyURL books.perl.org/book/171
http://tinyurl.com/ye7gjf4

# Change using config file
$ cat ~/.shortenrc
service = TinyURL
$ shorten books.perl.org/book/171
http://tinyurl.com/ye7gjf4

# Lengthen a URL
$ shorten -l http://tinyurl.com/ye7gjf4

CONFIGURATION

The service used can be controlled in various ways. The program will use the first of the following values that it finds:

• The value of the --service command line option.

• The value of the SHORTEN_SERVICE environment variable.

• The value of the service option from the configuration file (see below).

• If none of the above options is found, the program defaults to using Metamark.

CONFIGURATION FILE

As we use the Config::Auto module for configuration, shorten's fairly flexible when it comes to format.

Configuration will be found in whichever of the following files comes first.

shortenconfig
~/shortenconfig
/etc/shortenconfig
shorten.config
~/shorten.config
/etc/shorten.config
shortenrc
~/shortenrc
/etc/shortenrc
.shortenrc
~/.shortenrc
/etc/.shortenrc

Generally, I use the format:

service = MakeAShorterLink

which is simple and works. service is the only configuration keyword at present. Its value should be a correctly capitalized service name as per WWW::Shorten's documentation.

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2002 - 2010, Magnum Solutions Ltd. All rights reserved.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHOR

Iain Truskett <spoon@cpan.org>

CONTRIBUTORS

• Chase Whitener capoeirab@cpan.org

• Dave Cross <davecross@cpan.org>

SEE ALSO

WWW::Shorten