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TinyURL is an awesome service allows you to take a long URL like “http://seobat.net/wordpress/wordpress-faster-than-ever-with-wp-supercache” and turn it into a shorter one “http://tinyurl.com/lvogdo”. Using PHP and TinyURL API, you can create these tiny URLs on-the-fly. The API call is very simple, you have to fetch “http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=YOUR_URL_HERE” where instead of YOUR_URL_HERE you have to put the URL to be shorted.There are two ways to achieve this goal in PHP:
- Using cURL
- Using file_get_contents PHP function
Version 1 using cURL
// Define the function to get the data from TinyUrl function get_tiny_url($url) { $ch = curl_init(); // Init cURL lib $timeout = 5; curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=$url"); // Set the url to be fetched curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout); // Set cURL timeout curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); // Disable print out $data = curl_exec($ch); // Exec curl_close($ch); // Close return $data; //Return shorted URL } // Test Usage $long_url = "http://seobat.net/wordpress/wordpress-faster-than-ever-with-wp-supercache"; $short_url = get_tiny_url($long_url); // Getting short URL from long URL echo "Short URL is $new_url"; // Print the short url, in this case “Short URL is http://tinyurl.com/lvogdo”
Version 2 using file_get_contents PHP function
// Define the function to get the data from TinyUrl function get_tiny_url($url) { return file_get_contents("http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=$url"); } // Test Usage $long_url = "http://seobat.net/wordpress/wordpress-faster-than-ever-with-wp-supercache"; $short_url = get_tiny_url($long_url); // Getting short URL from long URL echo "Short URL is $new_url"; // Print the short url, in this case “Short URL is http://tinyurl.com/lvogdo”
Enjoy!
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Thanks for nice post ^^
TinyURL has experienced shrinkage in US traffic in the past month. Its API is a good feature but tinyurl needs to improve more in terms of its user interface.