NAME

WWW::Shorten::MakeAShorterLink - Perl interface to makeashorterlink.com

SYNOPSIS

  use WWW::Shorten::MakeAShorterLink;

  use WWW::Shorten 'MakeAShorterLink';

  $short_url = makeashorterlink($long_url);

  $long_url  = makealongerlink($short_url);

DESCRIPTION

A Perl interface to the web site makeashorterlink.com (MASL to its friends). MASL simply maintains a database of long URLs, each of which has a unique identifier.

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

The function makealongerlink does the reverse. makealongerlink will accept as an argument either the full MASL URL or just the MASL identifier.

If anything goes wrong, then either function will return undef.

For more information, see WWW::Shorten.

EXPORT

makeashorterlink, makealongerlink

BUGS

Please report bugs at <bug-www-shorten@rt.cpan.org> or via the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org

AUTHOR

Dave Cross <dave@dave.org.uk> Subtle modifications by Iain Truskett <spoon@cpan.org> Original LWP hacking by Alex Page <grimoire@corinne.cpio.org> makealongerlink idea by Simon Batistoni <simon@hitherto.net>

SEE ALSO

WWW::Shorten, perl, http://makeashorterlink.com/