NAME

WWW::Shorten::Metamark - Perl interface to metamark.net

SYNOPSIS

  use WWW::Shorten::Metamark;

  use WWW::Shorten 'Metamark';

  $short_url = makeashorterlink($long_url);

  $long_url  = makealongerlink($short_url);

DESCRIPTION

A Perl interface to the web site metamark.net. Metamark simply maintains a database of long URLs, each of which has a unique identifier.

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

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

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

EXPORT

makeashorterlink, makealongerlink

BUGS, REQUESTS, COMMENTS

Please report any requests, suggestions or bugs via the system at http://rt.cpan.org/, or email <bug-WWW-Shorten@rt.cpan.org>. This makes it much easier for me to track things and thus means your problem is less likely to be neglected.

THANKS

Ask Bjoern Hansen for providing both Metamark.net and advice on the module.

AUTHOR

Iain Truskett <spoon@cpan.org>

Based on WWW::MakeAShorterLink by Dave Cross <dave@dave.org.uk>

SEE ALSO

WWW::Shorten, perl, http://metamark.net/