Integrate with Shorten URLs module
IceCreamYou - May 10, 2009 - 23:17
| Project: | Service links |
| Version: | 6.x-2.x-dev |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | needs review |
Description
I've just released the Shorten URLs module, which makes it very easy to create short URLs from any of at least 14 services. Shorten URLs takes care of any problems that could arise if getting a short URL is taking too long or if the service is unavailable.
I think Service Links would benefit from integrating with Shorten URLs instead of handling its own URL shortening at TinyURL. This would give users more flexibility in how to handle URL shortening, take some of the burden off the shoulders of Service link's maintainers, and provide even shorter URLs in many cases for services like Tweet.
To produce a short URL, you just need to call shorten_shorten($url_to_be_shortened) and Shorten URLs will take care of the rest.
Thoughts?
#1
FYI, shorten_shorten() is now shorten_url() in the 1.1 release and later.
#2
Marked #529078 as duplicate
#3
I would love to see this in action.
#4
Turns out this was an easy feature request. That said, I am still having trouble getting the shortened url to show up in the twitter share links #598282: Twitter TinyURL does not appear to work