Anyone Using Bit.ly?

[Chris M 55]

I have a bot that creates automatic bit.ly urls on the fly. The only problem is the amount of time it takes to create and scrape them in large quantities.

 

Does anyone have code that deals with Bit.ly and is quick to create / scrape?

 

Haven't been able to figure out multi-threading so that may be an option. Just curious is someone has a super fast code already?

[giganut 109]

I stoped using bit.ly a few years ago and switch to http://yourls.org/ to prevent bans and other bad this from happeing. I don't have a code for that, but just thought I would through that out there.

[Chris M 55]

There is a reason I use bit.ly.

I'm not doing it for redirection.

 

Anyone?

[UBotDev 276]

Bit.ly has an API, why wouldn't you use that?

 

Here is a simple example (remember to add your login and API key instead of ***):

define $BITLY SHORTEN URL(#DEF URL) {
    return($trim($read file("http://api.bitly.com/v3/shorten?login=***&apiKey=***&longUrl={$plugin function("SocketCommands.dll", "$url encode", #DEF URL)}&format=txt")))
}

[Chris M 55]

Never learned how to do that but I'll check that out.

 

Thanks UBotDev

[Chris M 55]

That was exactly what I needed! Thanks man!

 

Cheers.

[gavind 6]

I think Bit.ly has tons of traffic going to their servers daily. Could that be a factor for the delay? 

[Chris M 55]

The API is fast

[UBotDev 276]

Great to hear that works for you.