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Reputation: 11

Tiny URL using PHP for auto-twitts

I'm trying to implement auto post on Twitter using PHP.

But because of twitt's character limit I wanted to know how can I use tinyURL, instead of placing the full link, like http://www.appdropp.com/ios/stone-age-the-board-game/564247778

You see it's quite long...

I know services like:

But how can I use these services in bulk, to generate hundreds of links every day with PHP?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1405

Answers (2)

Dmitri A
Dmitri A

Reputation: 110

You can check Google API, but I'm not sure about that much bulk. I can suggest 3 solutions for you:

  1. Create short links on your host using PHP.
  2. Twitter will shorten the URL for you if you tweet DIRECTLY. But, you cannot do it using auto-posting. So, count characters (like message + URL <= 140) and keep your automatic tweets length less than 140 characters.

  3. You can also try this (Check the PHP Source Code Example)

    function CompressURL($url) {
   $ch = curl_init();
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://"."to.ly/api.php?longurl=".urlencode($url));
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

   $shorturl = curl_exec ($ch);
   curl_close ($ch);

   return $shorturl;
}
echo CompressURL("http://twitter.com"); // Test

Upvotes: 0

The Mighty Programmer
The Mighty Programmer

Reputation: 1252

Note that This method depends upon TinyURL page structure which may be changed in near future and don't use it in that much bulk Or ask them for API ?

You can use this way.

  1. Encode your url.
    use urlencode
  2. Add your encode url to
    $url='http://tinyurl.com/create.php?source=indexpage&url=<encoded url>
  3. Create a dom object
    $doc=new DomDocuement();
  4. Load the page.
    $doc->loadHTMLFile($url); // this is page containing shorten url
  5. Grab the node that contains shorten url ..Second blockquote contains shorten url
    $nodelist=$doc->getElementsByTagName('blockquote');
    $blockquote=$nodelist->item(1) // grabbing shorten url blockquote 0:first 1:second
  6. Now Grab shorten url :
    $shorten_url=$blockquote->$firstChild->NodeValue

  7. Use any where you like.

    For more info see tiny url page structure
    Read more about DOMDocument
    For goo.gl, read: https://developers.google.com/url-shortener

Upvotes: 1

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