ShortURL

Generic implementation for interacting with various URL shortening services in Go.

Usage

As usual you can install the package by issuing:

$ go get github.com/subosito/shorturl

Features

Shortening URL

ShortURL provides simple API to shorten a long URL, here's how:

// import "github.com/subosito/shorturl"

provider := "tinyurl"
u, err := shorturl.Shorten("http://example.com/", provider)
if err == nil {
	fmt.Println(u)
}

Alternatively, you can initialize desired provider:

// import "github.com/subosito/shorturl/tinyurl"

s := tinyurl.New()
u, err := s.Shorten("http://example.com/")
if err == nil {
	fmt.Println(u)
}

Expanding short URL

ShortURL also provides simple API to expand short URL into its original long URL:

// import "github.com/subosito/shorturl"

u, err := shorturl.Expand("http://bit.ly/13M3JX5")
if err == nil {
	fmt.Println(u)
}

Supported Services

Credits

Inspiration comes from Rubygem shorturl by @robbyrussell