NAME

       WWW::Shorten - Interface to URL shortening sites.

SYNOPSIS

         #!/usr/bin/env perl
         use strict;
         use warnings;

         use WWW::Shorten 'TinyURL'; # Recommended
         # use WWW::Shorten 'Linkz'; # or one of the others
         # use WWW::Shorten 'Shorl';

         # Individual modules have have their own syntactic variations.
         # See the documentation for the particular module you intend to use for details

         my $url = 'https://metacpan.org/pod/WWW::Shorten';
         my $short_url = makeashorterlink($url);
         my $long_url  = makealongerlink($short_url);

         # - OR -
         # If you don't like the long function names:

         use WWW::Shorten 'TinyURL', ':short';
         my $short_url = short_link($url);
         my $long_url = long_link( $short_url );

DESCRIPTION

       A Perl interface to various services that shorten URLs. These sites maintain databases of long URLs, each
       of which has a unique identifier.

       # DEPRECATION NOTICE

       The following shorten services have been deprecated as the endpoints no longer exist or function:

       •   WWW::Shorten::LinkToolbot

       •   WWW::Shorten::Linkz

       •   WWW::Shorten::MakeAShorterLink

       •   WWW::Shorten::Metamark

       •   WWW::Shorten::TinyClick

       •   WWW::Shorten::Tinylink

       •   WWW::Shorten::Qurl

       •   WWW::Shorten::Qwer

       When version 3.100 is released, these deprecated services will not be part of the distribution.

COMMAND LINE PROGRAM

       A  very  simple program called shorten is supplied in the distribution's bin folder. This program takes a
       URL and gives you a shortened version of it.

BUGS, REQUESTS, COMMENTS

       Please  submit  any  issues  <https://github.com/p5-shorten/www-shorten/issues>  you  might   have.    We
       appreciate all help, suggestions, noted problems, and especially patches.

       Note  that  support  for  extra  shortening  services  should  be  released  as  separate  modules,  like
       WWW::Shorten::Googl or WWW::Shorten::Bitly.

       Support   for   this   module   is   supplied   primarily   via   the    using    the    GitHub    Issues
       <https://github.com/p5-shorten/www-shorten/issues> but we also happily respond to issues submitted to the
       CPAN  RT  <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=WWW-Shorten>  system  via  the  web  or  email:
       "bug-www-shorten@rt.cpan.org"

       *                           https://github.com/p5-shorten/www-shorten/issues                            *
       http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=WWW-Shorten   *  (  shorter  URL:  http://xrl.us/rfb  )  *
       "bug-www-shorten@rt.cpan.org"

AUTHOR

       Iain Truskett "spoon@cpan.org"

CONTRIBUTORS

       •   Alex Page -- for the original LWP hacking on which Dave based his code.

       •   Ask Bjoern Hansen -- providing WWW::Shorten::Metamark

       •   Chase Whitener "capoeirab@cpan.org"

       •   Dave Cross dave@perlhacks.com -- Authored WWW::MakeAShorterLink on which this was based

       •   Eric Hammond -- writing WWW::Shorten::NotLong

       •   Jon and William (wjr) -- smlnk services

       •   Kazuhiro Osawa "yappo@cpan.org"

       •   Kevin Gilbertson (Gilby) -- TinyURL API information

       •   Martin Thurn -- bug fixes

       •   Matt Felsen (mattf) -- shorter function names

       •   Neil Bowers "neilb@cpan.org"

       •   PJ Goodwin -- code for WWW::Shorten::OneShortLink

       •   Shashank Tripathi "shank@shank.com" -- for providing WWW::Shorten::SnipURL

       •   Simon Batistoni -- giving the `makealongerlink` idea to Dave.

       •   Everyone else we might have missed.

       In 2004 Dave Cross took over the maintenance of this distribution following the death of Iain Truskett.

       In 2016, Chase Whitener took over the maintenance of this distribution.

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2002 by Iain Truskett.

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under  the  same  terms  as  Perl
       itself.

SEE ALSO

       CGI::Shorten, WWW::Shorten::Simple

perl v5.22.2                                       2016-05-06                                  WWW::Shorten(3pm)