Did you know that tinyurl.com has an API? A few
months ago while writing lensherr, I was
poking around and discovered their API. All you have to do is make a HTTP GET
request to this endpoint http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php with a
url parameter of the url you want to tinyurl. It's that simple.
Below are code snippets of working classes that I have used in past projects.
TinyURL Python class, that is included in my google code lensherr project.
class tinyurl:
API_CREATE_URI = "http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=%s"
def __init__(self, url):
self.url = url
def create(self):
encoded_url = urllib.urlencode({'url':self.url})[4:]
new_url = tinyurl.API_CREATE_URI % (encoded_url)
tinyurl_request = urllib2.Request(new_url)
tinyurl_handle = urllib2.urlopen(tinyurl_request)
return tinyurl_handle.read()
TinyURL C# class, that is included in my github repository here.
public static class TinyUrl
{
public static string Create(string url)
{
string tinyUrlApiFormat = "http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url={0}";
string tinyUrlCall = string.Format(tinyUrlApiFormat, HttpUtility.UrlEncode(url));
string response = string.Empty;
HttpWebRequest hr = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(tinyUrlCall);
hr.Method = "GET";
HttpWebResponse hwr = (HttpWebResponse)hr.GetResponse();
using(System.IO.Stream receiveStream = hwr.GetResponseStream())
using (System.IO.StreamReader sr = new System.IO.StreamReader(receiveStream, System.Text.Encoding.UTF8))
{
response = sr.ReadToEnd();
}
return response;
}
}
Happy Hacking.
