I haven't been able to find how to shorten a URL with or without the Shorten URLs module, at least in the context of creating a Twitter action that is triggered when a new story is created. Is this documented somewhere? I haven't seen it in the information for the Twitter module, or in the UI for the module itself (where certain available tokens are listed).

Thanks!

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ts404’s picture

ts404 commented

Hi m8,

Modify the file %modules%/twitter/twitter_actions/twitter.module

At the end of file, replace 

// Node-based variable translation is only available if we have a node.
  if (isset($node) && is_object($node)) {
    $variables = array_merge($variables, array(
        '%uid' => $node->uid,
        '%node_url' => url('node/'. $node->nid, array('absolute' => TRUE)),
        '%node_type' => node_get_types('name', $node),
        '%title' => $node->title,
        '%teaser' => $node->teaser,
        '%body' => $node->body
      )
    );
  }

by 

// Node-based variable translation is only available if we have a node.
  if (isset($node) && is_object($node)) {
    $variables = array_merge($variables, array(
        '%uid' => $node->uid,
        '%node_url' => twitter_shorten_url(url('node/'. $node->nid, array('absolute' => TRUE))),
        '%node_type' => node_get_types('name', $node),
        '%title' => $node->title,
        '%teaser' => $node->teaser,
        '%body' => $node->body
      )
    );
  }

Bye ;)

abraham’s picture

abraham commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Twitter will also auto shorten links that are to long.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.