NAME WWW::Shorten::SnipURL - Perl interface to http://SnipURL.com SYNOPSIS use strict; use warnings; use WWW::Shorten 'SnipURL'; # recommended # use WWW::Shorten::SnipURL; # also available my $long_url = 'http://www.foo.com/bar/'; my $short_url = makeashorterlink($long_url); $long_url = makealongerlink($short_url); DESCRIPTION WARNING: http://snipurl.com does not provide an API. We must scrape the resulting HTML. * Also, their service has been up and down quite a bit lately. We have disabled live tests due to this. * You have been warned. We suggest using another WWW::Shorten service. A Perl interface to the web service http://SnipURL.com. The service maintains a database of long URLs, each of which has a unique identifier or nickname. For more features, please visit http://snipurl.com/features. Functions WWW::Shorten::SnipURL makes the following functions available. makeashorterlink my $short = makeashorterlink('http://www.example.com/'); The function makeashorterlink will call use the web service, passing it your long URL and will return the shorter version. makealongerlink my $long = makealongerlink('ablkjadf2314sfd'); my $long = makealongerlink('http://snipurl.com/ablkjadf2314sfd'); The function makealongerlink does the reverse. makealongerlink will accept as an argument either the full URL or just the identifier. If anything goes wrong, then either function will return undef. AUTHOR Shashank Tripathi CONTRIBUTORS * Chase Whitener capoeirab@cpan.org * Dave Cross dave@perlhacks.com COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE See the main WWW::Shorten docs. SEE ALSO WWW::Shorten, http://shorl.com/