Hey fellas, I’ve got this little exercise I did to do a mass url shortener using TinyURL API as an example, also I added a big list of API’s for shortening URLs like Bit.ly, Tiny.cc and more.<\/p>\n
You might not have any use for this, but its good for education, we didn’t use any cURL because the API is opened and with a simple file_get_contents we can see the result when we input the url to the main gate of this API, check it out:<\/p>\n
<?php\r\n\/\/ we first create the function to not repeat ourselves\r\nfunction tinyurl($longUrl) {\r\n\t\/\/ We use the tiny_url API\r\n\t$short_url= file_get_contents('http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/api-create.php?url=' . $longUrl);\r\n\treturn $short_url; \/\/ an obviously return the data so you assign it to a variable\r\n}\r\n\/\/we specify the file which is in same folder of this script\r\n\/\/ make sure to paste line by line all the URLs in links.txt\r\n$filename = 'links.txt';\r\n\/\/ we open the file into variable\r\n$links = file($filename);\r\n$links_bucket = array(); \/\/ create our array before.\r\n\/\/ we will iterate the $links variable which assigned to file()\r\nforeach($links as $link) {\r\n\t\/\/ time to use the function that returns the shortened URL \r\n\t$tinyURL = tinyurl($link);\r\n\t\/\/ and we push into the array that we will var_dump\r\n\tarray_push($links_bucket, $tinyURL);\r\n}\r\n\r\nvar_dump($links_bucket);<\/pre>\nSo with this example you can create your own functions either using file_get_contents for open API’s or cURL making POST request with proper credentials to get the output.<\/p>\n
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So here is the promised list of URL shortener services, I don’t know if some of them might help to cloak or anything, you will have to try it:<\/p>\n
Try it yourself and let me know how it worked \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
Im done by today I might come with other stuff later, Im on my PHP spree, I might change soon. So don’t question why I haven’t used other languages. I just feel like it.<\/p>\n
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