Generating a Shorter URL using bit.ly API and jQuery
Here is a simple jQuery script to generate shorter URL using the bit.ly API.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head><title>URL Shortening</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#btnShort").click(function() {
var longUrl = $("#longUrl").val();
var shortUrl = $("#shortUrl");
shortUrl.html("Loading...");
var params = {
version: "2.0.1",
longUrl: longUrl,
login: "bitlyapidemo",
apiKey: "R_0da49e0a9118ff35f52f629d2d71bf07"
};
$.getJSON("http://api.bit.ly/shorten",
{ version: params.version, longUrl: params.longUrl, login: params.login, apiKey: params.apiKey },
function(data) {
shortUrl.html(data.results[longUrl].shortUrl);
});
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input type="text" id="longUrl" /><input type="button" id="btnShort" value="Shorten!" />
<br />
<div id="shortUrl" />
</body>
</html>
You can go through the bit.ly API documentation and try out the remaining methods as well.
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great article, thanks for sharing.