NAME

WWW::Shorten::SnipURL - Perl interface to SnipURL.com

SYNOPSIS

  use WWW::Shorten::SnipURL;

  use WWW::Shorten 'SnipURL';

  $short_url = makeashorterlink($long_url);

  $long_url  = makealongerlink($short_url);

DESCRIPTION

A Perl interface to the web service SnipURL.com. SnipURL maintains a database of long URLs, each of which has a unique identifier or nickname. For more features, please visit http://snipurl.com/features

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

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

Shashank Tripathi <shank@shank.com> for providing both SnipURL.com 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://snipurl.com/