Class: Puny

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
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Defined in:
lib/puny.rb

Overview

Puny

Holds the methods available on the Puny API

(see services.sapo.pt/Metadata/Service/PunyURL?culture=EN)

Constant Summary collapse

TO_PUNY = 
'http://services.sapo.pt/PunyURL/GetCompressedURLByURL'
FROM_PUNY = 
'http://services.sapo.pt/PunyURL/GetURLByCompressedURL'

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.expand(url) ⇒ Object

Expands a puny URL to the original URL

Returns a String instance with the original URL or nil if there was an error

Example:

require 'puny'
puts Puny.expand('http://b.ot.sl.pt')



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# File 'lib/puny.rb', line 53

def self.expand(url)
  url = FROM_PUNY + '?url=' + CGI.escape(url)
  p = _process_response(open(url))
  p.url
end

.shorten(url) ⇒ Object

Shortens a URL

Returns a PunyURL instance with the shortened version of the URL, or nil if there was an error

Example:

require 'puny'
puny = Puny.shorten('http://developers.sapo.pt')
puts puny.puny
puts puny.url



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# File 'lib/puny.rb', line 38

def self.shorten(url)
  url = TO_PUNY + '?url=' + CGI.escape(url)
  _process_response(open(url))
end