NAME
WWW::Shorten::IsGd - shorten (or lengthen) URLs with http://is.gd
VERSION
version 0.003
SYNOPSIS
use WWW::Shorten::IsGd;
use WWW::Shorten 'IsGd';
my $url = q{http://averylong.link/wow?thats=really&really=long};
my $short_url = makeashorterlink($url);
my $long_url = makealongerlink($short_url); # eq $url
DESCRIPTION
A Perl interface to the web site http://is.gd. is.gd simply maintains a database of long URLs, each of which has a unique identifier.
FUNCTIONS
makeashorterlink
The function makeashorterlink
will call the is.gd web site passing it your long URL and will return the shortened link.
makealongerlink
The function makealongerlink
does the reverse. makealongerlink
will accept as an argument either the full TinyURL URL or just the TinyURL identifier.
If anything goes wrong, then either function will return undef
.
AVAILABILITY
The project homepage is http://p3rl.org/WWW::Shorten::IsGd.
The latest version of this module is available from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN). Visit http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ to find a CPAN site near you, or see http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-Shorten-IsGd/.
The development version lives at http://github.com/doherty/WWW-Shorten-IsGd and may be cloned from git://github.com/doherty/WWW-Shorten-IsGd.git. Instead of sending patches, please fork this project using the standard git and github infrastructure.
SOURCE
The development version is on github at http://github.com/doherty/WWW-Shorten-IsGd and may be cloned from git://github.com/doherty/WWW-Shorten-IsGd.git
BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
No bugs have been reported.
Please report any bugs or feature requests through the web interface at https://github.com/doherty/WWW-Shorten-IsGd/issues.
AUTHOR
Mike Doherty <doherty@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Mike Doherty.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.