Google Url Shortener
Gem for simply using Google's URL shortening service.
Installation
gem install googleurlshortener
Usage
There are two ways to use the shortener
1) Default (unauthenticated)
shortener = Googleurlshortener::Default.new
short_url = shortener.shorten("https://github.com/mkraft/GoogleAPIs")
2) Authenticated
authd_shortener = Googleurlshortener::Authenticated.new("[email protected]", "somepassword")
short_url = authd_shortener.shorten("https://github.com/mkraft/GoogleAPIs")
If you're authenticated you can use all of the normal methods and also get analytics about URL's you have shortened.
analytics_object = authd_shortener.analytics(short_url)
Methods
Assuming a Googleurlshortener instance named s, one can do the following
s.shorten(long_url)s.expand(short_url)s.analytics(short_url)(Authenticated only) Returns an object, in the structure of the JSON object sent by Google, with a bunch of analytics data such as number of clicks.
Additional Documentation
License
Copyright (C) 2011 Martin Kraft
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