I'm playing a bit with Javascript these days... I was shrinking some URLs using bit.ly to tweet them, then I started to think on a automated process that could use their API to shrink the URLs I wanted, then I looked up on their documentation, and I saw that they only support PHP(with some Javascript), but there is anyway that I could make this using only Javascript?
Here is an example how to get a shortened URL with Bitly API and jQuery, no server side code required.
function get_short_url(long_url, login, api_key, func)
{
$.getJSON(
"http://api.bitly.com/v3/shorten?callback=?",
{
"format": "json",
"apiKey": api_key,
"login": login,
"longUrl": long_url
},
function(response)
{
func(response.data.url);
}
);
}
The following code could be used to get a short URL:
/*
Sign up for Bitly account at
https://bitly.com/a/sign_up
and upon completion visit
https://bitly.com/a/your_api_key/
to get "login" and "api_key" values
*/
var login = "LOGIN_HERE";
var api_key = "API_KEY_HERE";
var long_url = "http://www.kozlenko.info";
get_short_url(long_url, login, api_key, function(short_url) {
console.log(short_url);
});