shrinkURL updated, new service added
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Twitter personality Chad Udell (@visualrinse), Flash developer, and all around web guy recently launched a new short URL service, f'n awesome. Do we need more short URL services? Do we need more Twitter clients? Go check it out, and give him some feedback if you like it.
To coincide with Chad's launch shrinkURL, and Shrinkadoo, have both been updated to offer support for f'n awesome. More options are always a good thing right?
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I've not seen the ShrinkURL component but was thinking about that challenge just the other day when thinking about twitter/facebook integration into my application. Looks to be very cool, Thanks. Rob.
Robert Rawlins - August 18, 2009 01:40 am
If you decide to try it out Robert, let me know. I always love getting feedback. ShrinkURL is actually in use within BlogCFC via Adam Tuttle's Sweet Tweets plugin.
andy matthews - August 18, 2009 12:01 pm
But, do you support http://linkm.in/ yet? ;)
Todd Rafferty - August 18, 2009 12:06 pm
Looks like the API for that site isn't working correctly Todd. When I click on the JSON link found in the docs:
http://linkm.in/publicAPI.cfc?method=createShortUrlJson&url=http://www.test.com
copy the shortlink out, paste it into a new URL, I get a "Sorry the link you were looking for does not seem to exist." error. I've already got the code written to add this service into ShrinkURL, you just need to let me know when the API is working correctly.
;)
andy matthews - August 18, 2009 01:02 pm
Here's a quick video screencase of the steps I took. I'd love to add it, just let me know when it's working: http://screencast.com/t/rXHjc5yxhtwo
andy matthews - August 18, 2009 01:03 pm
@Andy: You crack me up, I was actually joking, but hey... wow... you actually looked into it. Now I should figure out what to do with the http://web-r.at/ domain I just purchased. ;) Let me see if I can ping the dev of linkm.in about the API issue.
Todd Rafferty - August 18, 2009 01:14 pm
@Andy: I think we're reading the JSON wrong: I ran this through - http://linkm.in/publicAPI.cfc?method=createShortUrlJson&url=http://www.test12345.com/ I got: {"LINKALREADYEXISTS":false,"SHORTLINK":"bcttt9","ORIGURL":"http://www.test12345.com/","ERRORS":[]} LINKALREADYEXISTS is FALSE. It created the link and gave me bcttt9 as a result.
Todd Rafferty - August 18, 2009 01:21 pm
Hey guys Todd let me know you were having a problem with the API. I'm at work right now and the site is truly in it's infancy but I'll have a fix up early this evening. Thanks so much for integrating. P.S. if you need anything else don't hesitate to contact me
Chris Hayes - August 18, 2009 01:53 pm
Todd...
Check the video. I get a result just fine. But try plugging your SHORTLINK" (bcttt9) back into their URL and you'll get the same error I got: http://linkm.in/bcttt9
andy matthews - August 18, 2009 02:22 pm
@Andy: Gotcha, understand now. I pinged the linkm.in dev, he's going to look into it and said thanks for bringing it to his attention.
Todd Rafferty - August 18, 2009 02:26 pm