NAME

WWW::LongURL - Perl interface to the LongURL API.

SYNOPSIS

use WWW::LongURL;

my $longurl = WWW::LongURL->new();

my $expanded_url = $longurl->expand('http://bit.ly/cZcYFn');

DESCRIPTION

A simple interface for using the LongURL API to expand shortened URLs.

You can expand a bit.ly URL like so:

my $url = $longurl->expand($some_bitly_url);

METHODS

new

Constructor

expand($url)

On success, will return the expanded URL from LongURL. On failure, returns undef.

SUPPORTED SHORTENING SERVICES

LongURL will expand the URL from over 200 supported shortening services.

See http://longurl.org/services

REPOSITORY

Development is on-going at: https://github.com/kevinspencer/WWW-LongURL

AUTHOR

Kevin Spencer, kspencer@cpan.org

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2011. Kevin Spencer

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html

SEE ALSO

http://longurl.org/, http://longurl.org/api/