Module: LongUrl

Extended by:
LongUrl
Included in:
LongUrl
Defined in:
lib/long_url.rb

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#longen(urls) ⇒ Object

Longens a shortened URL by passing it to the Long URL Please API (www.longurlplease.com/)

Can either be called with a single URL, or an array of URLs.

Returns a Hash where the keys are the shortened URLs, and the values are the longened URLs.



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# File 'lib/long_url.rb', line 17

def longen(urls)
  # Make sure it's an array
  urls = [*urls]
  result = {}

  # We can pass 10 URLs at once
  urls.each_slice(10) do |the_urls|
    query_string = the_urls.map{|url| "q=#{url}"}.join("&")
    response = Net::HTTP.get(URI.parse("http://longurlplease.appspot.com/api/v1.1?#{query_string}"))

    result.merge!(JSON.parse(response))
  end

  result
end