WWW::Shorten(3pm)

1WWW::Shorten(3)       User Contributed Perl Documentation      WWW::Shorten(3)
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NAME

6       WWW::Shorten - Interface to URL shortening sites.
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SYNOPSIS

9         #!/usr/bin/env perl
10         use strict;
11         use warnings;
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13         use WWW::Shorten 'TinyURL'; # Recommended
14         # use WWW::Shorten 'Bitly'; # or one of the others
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16         # Individual modules have have their own syntactic variations.
17         # See the documentation for the particular module you intend to use for details
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19         my $url = 'https://metacpan.org/pod/WWW::Shorten';
20         my $short_url = makeashorterlink($url);
21         my $long_url  = makealongerlink($short_url);
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23         # - OR -
24         # If you don't like the long function names:
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26         use WWW::Shorten 'TinyURL', ':short';
27         my $short_url = short_link($url);
28         my $long_url = long_link( $short_url );
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DESCRIPTION

31       A Perl interface to various services that shorten URLs. These sites
32       maintain databases of long URLs, each of which has a unique identifier.
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DEPRECATION NOTICE

35       The following shorten services have been deprecated as the endpoints no
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38       •   WWW::Shorten::LinkToolbot
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54       When version 3.100 is released, these deprecated services will not be
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SHORTEN APP

58       A very simple program called shorten is supplied in the distribution's
59       bin folder. This program takes a URL and gives you a shortened version
60       of it.
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BUGS, REQUESTS, COMMENTS

63       Please submit any issues <https://github.com/p5-shorten/www-
64       shorten/issues> you might have.  We appreciate all help, suggestions,
65       noted problems, and especially patches.
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67       * If you know of a shorten service that we don't already have, make
68       your own service and release it as a separate module, like
69       WWW::Shorten::Googl or WWW::Shorten::Bitly.  Alternatively, you can let
70       us know and we'll be happy to work it up for you.
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AUTHOR

73       Iain Truskett "spoon@cpan.org"
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CONTRIBUTORS

76       •   Alex Page -- for the original LWP hacking on which Dave based his
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79       •   Ask Bjoern Hansen -- providing WWW::Shorten::Metamark
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81       •   Chase Whitener "capoeirab@cpan.org"
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83       •   Dave Cross dave@perlhacks.com -- Authored WWW::MakeAShorterLink on
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86       •   Eric Hammond -- writing WWW::Shorten::NotLong
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88       •   Jon and William (wjr) -- smlnk services
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90       •   Kazuhiro Osawa "yappo@cpan.org"
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94       •   Martin Thurn -- bug fixes
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96       •   Matt Felsen (mattf) -- shorter function names
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98       •   Neil Bowers "neilb@cpan.org"
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100       •   PJ Goodwin -- code for WWW::Shorten::OneShortLink
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102       •   Shashank Tripathi "shank@shank.com" -- for providing
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105       •   Simon Batistoni -- giving the `makealongerlink` idea to Dave.
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107       •   Everyone else we might have missed.
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109       In 2004 Dave Cross took over the maintenance of this distribution
110       following the death of Iain Truskett.
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112       In 2016, Chase Whitener took over the maintenance of this distribution.
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LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

115       Copyright (c) 2002 by Iain Truskett.
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117       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
118       under the same terms as Perl itself.
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