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Timmy Knezevich
Timmy Knezevich

Reputation: 67

How to shorten a link using bitly API that contains a url in GET parameters [PHP]

I am trying to shorten a url using the PHP API from bitly. The url I am trying to shorten contains a url in the GET parameters.

The url is similar to

http://www.my.domain.io/Embed.php?k=318353564&p=something&a=someone&d=true&i=http://i.imgur.com/gBlh6Zm.jpg&pop=true&popn=0

When I use a version of the link in which i has been urlencode() first, the returned shortened link sends me to is http://www.my.domain.io/Embed.php?k=318353564 the remaining parameters are cut off.

When I use urlencode() on the entire link after urlencode() the parameter i it returns the whole link http://www.my.domain.io/Embed.php?k=318353564&p=something&a=someone&d=true&i=http://i.imgur.com/gBlh6Zm.jpg&pop=true&popn=0 but because the parameter i is not encoded in the link it just gives me a 403 error.

When I send the link with no encoding at all it returns the link without parameters again. When I send the link with urlencode() on the entire link it returns the literal version of the link again resulting in a 403 error. So that's 4 different ways of trying to encode the link none of which lead me to the correct link.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3604

Answers (1)

jamb
jamb

Reputation: 146

You need to use "%26" instead of ampersand (&).

http://www.my.domain.io/Embed.php?k=318353564%26p=something%26a=someone%26d=true%26i=http://i.imgur.com/gBlh6Zm.jpg%26pop=true

When I query bitly API with the following GET parameters:

https://api-ssl.bitly.com/shorten?version=2.0.1&login=<bitly_username>&access_token=<bitly_accesstoken>&format=json&history=1&longUrl=http://www.my.domain.io/Embed.php?k=318353564%26p=something%26a=someone%26d=true%26i=http://i.imgur.com/gBlh6Zm.jpg%26pop=true

I get a link such as http://bit.ly/1n4OuzX, which redirect me to your original URL.

Update: When I change the domain from "www.my.domain.io" to my local web server it sends the parameters to it fine.

Here is a print_r:

Array
(
    [k] => 318353564
    [p] => something
    [a] => someone
    [d] => true
    [i] => http://i.imgur.com/gBlh6Zm.jpg
    [pop] => true
    [popn] => 0
)

Upvotes: 4

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