NAME

WWW::Shorten::NotLong - Perl interface to notlong.com

SYNOPSIS

  use WWW::Shorten 'NotLong';

  $short_url = makeashorterlink($long_url);
  $short_url = makeashorterlink($long_url, nickname => $nickname);
  ($short_url,$password) = makeashorterlink($long_url);
  ($short_url,$password) = makeashorterlink($long_url, nickname => $nickname);

  $long_url  = makealongerlink($short_url);
  $long_url  = makealongerlink($nickname);

DESCRIPTION

A Perl interface to the web site notlong.com. Notlong.com simply maintains a database of long URLs, each of which has a unique identifier.

The function makeashorterlink will call the notlong.com web site passing it your long URL and will return the shorter (notlong) version. If used in a list context, then it will return both the notlong URL and the password.

If you pass a nickname, the notlong service will use your provided (alpha-numeric) string as the unique identifier, provided that it has not already been assigned previously.

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

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

Note that notlong.com, unlike TinyURL and MakeAShorterLink, returns a unique code for every submission.

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.

AUTHOR

Eric Hammond <ehammond@thinksome.com>

Based almost entirely on WWW::Shorten::Shorl by Iain Truskett <spoon@cpan.org> which was based on WWW::MakeAShorterLink by Dave Cross <dave@dave.org.uk>

SEE ALSO

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