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NAME

Bot::Cobalt::Plugin::Bitly - Bot::Cobalt plugin for auto-shortening URL via Bit.ly

VERSION

version 0.001

SYNOPSIS

## In plugins.conf
Bitly:
Module: Bot::Cobalt::Plugin::Bitly
Opts:
min_length: <minumum URL length> # default 160
creds:
user_name: <bit.ly user name>
user_api_key: <bit.ly user api key>
end_user_name: <bit.ly end-user name> # optional
end_user_api_key: <bit.ly end-user api key> # optional
domain: <domain name to use> # optional

DESCRIPTION

A Bot::Cobalt plugin.

Automatically takes any URLs in a given message, and if they are too long, shortens them via the bit.ly webservice (WebService::Bitly), and then broadcasts the newly shortened URL to the channel.

SEE ALSO

WebService::Bitly

AUTHOR

Scott Miller <scott.j.miller@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Scott Miller.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.