Most services have an API. Even x.co has one.

On May 7, 2014 5:13 PM, "James Dugger" <james.dugger@gmail.com> 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 <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

welll, that's not quite what I meant.

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

nope, I don't. Oh well. Thanks.

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Matt Graham <mhgraham@crow202.org> 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.

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