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 'Bitly'; # or one of the others

         # 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.

SHORTEN APP

       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.

       * If you know of a shorten service that we don't already have, make your own service and
       release it as a separate module, like WWW::Shorten::Googl or WWW::Shorten::Bitly.
       Alternatively, you can let us know and we'll be happy to work it up for you.

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