ShortURL

Summary

ShortURL is a very simple library to use URL shortening services such as TinyURL or RubyURL.

Installation

ShortURL is available as a gem, installation is just like any other gem: $ gem install -r shorturl

You can also download the tar.bz2 archive at rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=732 if you do not want to use the gem.

Usage:

call-seq:

  require "shorturl"
  puts ShortURL.shorten("http://mypage.com")
  puts ShortURL.shorten("http://mypage.com", :tinyurl)

The second parameter represents the service you want to use. These are:

• :rubyurl
• :tinyurl
• :snorl
• :snipurl
• :metamark
• :makeashorterlink
• :skinnylink
• :linktrim
• :shorterlink

Note that you can use ShortURL.valid_services to obtain a list of the valid services (in case I forget to update the documentation)

Thanks

• Marcel Molina Jr., Devin Mullins for some ideas
• imperator from ruby-lang (don’t know your real name, sorry) for helping me with creating and uploading a RubyGem

Author

Vincent Foley