Most services have an API. Even x.co has one. On May 7, 2014 5:13 PM, "James Dugger" wrote: > ​What is the context of the use case, website you are creating, or save > typing (CLI)? If it is a website, is it static (html only) or dynamic > (PHP, Python, ASP.NET)? Where is the site hosted, locally (you), ISP > (Cox, CentruryLink, etc), hosting company (Hostmonster, GoDaddy, etc). > > > > On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > >> welll, that's not quite what I meant. >> >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> >> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Michael Havens wrote: >> >>> nope, I don't. Oh well. Thanks. >>> >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> >>> >>> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Matt Graham wrote: >>> >>>> On 2014-05-07 12:44, Michael Havens wrote: >>>> >>>>> How do I I condense long urls ? You know, the 'click here' where the >>>>> 'here' is a link to your address. >>>>> >>>> >>>> If you meant "I want to link to http://www.giantitp.com/ >>>> forums/showthread.php?t=59834 (silly post about the Beige Dragon) but >>>> the giantitp link is a whole lot to type. I'd rather use something like >>>> http://crow202.org/22 ," then you would use a URL shortener. There >>>> are a bunch of them. bit.ly and goo.gl are popular IIRC. These >>>> things usually end up giving you " http://goo.gl/654321 ", and if you >>>> go there, the server there looks up 654321 in a huge table and gives you a >>>> 301 redirect to http://example.com/a/really/huge/long/location/ . >>>> >>>> I wrote my own because it was a fairly easy thing to do, and all the >>>> extant publicly-usable URL shorteners almost certainly use tracking cookies >>>> and/or piles of JS garbage. You probably don't have a webhost to put a URL >>>> shortener on though. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress >>>> There is no Darkness in Eternity >>>> But only Light too dim for us to see. >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> >>> >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > -- > James > > *Linkedin * > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >