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NAME

WWW::Shorten::LYTN - Perl interface to LYTN

SYNOPSIS

  use WWW::Shorten::LYTN;
  use WWW::Shorten 'LYTN';

  $short_url = makeashorterlink($long_url);

DESCRIPTION

A Perl interface to the web site lytn.it. lytn simply maintains a database of long URLs, each of which has a unique identifier. lytn.it will also track how many hits a URL recieves, but this feature is currently unavailable.

Functions

The function makeashorterlink will call the lytn web site passing it your long URL and will return the shorter lytn version.

EXPORT

makeashorterlink

AUTHOR

Aaron Blakley <aaron@cpan.org>

SEE ALSO

WWW::Shorten, perl, http://lytn.it/