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olive

Member

From: Belgium

Registered: 2008-06-22

Posts: 1,490

Use the google shortener in a script.

Google offers now an url shortener: http://goo.gl/ . Is it possible to use it in a script? I used to use www.tinyurl.com that you can easily access in a script: for example (assuming that $url contains the url to be shortened) by:

wget -O - http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=${url}

I do not have found a documentation do do the same with the google one but I am sure it must be very easy.

Accessing these kind of service with a little script can be very convenient: for example you put the url in the clipboard, press a key and the url in the clipboard is automatically shortened.

litemotiv

Forum Fellow

Registered: 2008-08-01

Posts: 5,026

Re: Use the google shortener in a script.

Moved to Workstation User.

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falconindy

Developer

From: New York, USA

Registered: 2009-10-22

Posts: 4,111

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Re: Use the google shortener in a script.

It's not going to be easier than tinyurl, as there's no easy API available. The page is AJAX and doesn't actually refresh when a link is submitted.

That said, a quick search got me this...

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2010/01/2 … on-add-on/

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thestinger

Package Maintainer (PM)

From: Toronto, Canada

Registered: 2010-01-23

Posts: 478

Re: Use the google shortener in a script.

there was a vimperator plugin that used it, but it stopped working (I assume they changed something to stop people from using their service)