NAME
TinyURL::RU - shorten URLs with byst.ro (aka tinyurl.ru)
SYNOPSIS
use TinyURL::RU qw(shorten lengthen);
my $long = 'http://www.whitehouse.gov/';
my $short = shorten($long);
$long = lengthen($short);
DESCRIPTION
This module provides you a very simple interface to URL shortening site http://byst.ro (aka http://tinyurl.ru).
FUNCTIONS
$short = shorten($long [, $prefix, $suffix])
Takes long URL as first argument and returns its tiny version (or undef on error).
Optionaly you can pass $prefix and/or $suffix for tiny URL.
$prefix
will be used as subdomain in shortened URL.
$suffix
will be used as path in shortened URL.
Example:
$short = shorten($long, 'hello'); # $short eq 'http://hello.byst.ro/'
$short = shorten($long, undef, 'hello'); # $short eq 'http://byst.ro/hello'
$short = shorten($long, 'hello', 'world'); # $short eq 'http://hello.byst.ro/world'
Note: passing $prefix
and/or $suffix
may cause shortening fail if $prefix
or $suffix
is already taken by someone.
$long = lengthen($short)
Takes shortened URL (or its path part) as argument and returns its original version (or undef on error).
AUTHOR
Алексей Суриков <ksuri@cpan.org>
NOTE
There is a small convenience for you: a plugin for WWW::Shorten comes with this distribution.
See WWW::Shorten::TinyURL::RU.
SEE ALSO
LICENSE
This program is free software, you can redistribute it under the same terms as Perl itself.