Hi I am a web application in ROR and shortening url using bit.ly. whenever i create an url using bit.ly i could custom url like http://bit.ly/19Mk8Oj now i want to remove bit.ly and needs to add my own custom url like ferdy.ly/sdf2323 how to do that?
when i Google about this and found the following url http://support.bitly.com/knowledgebase/articles/76741-how-do-i-set-up-a-custom-short-domain-. now i have a registered domain for this from http://libyanspider.com/m and need help to integrate the custom domain with my bitly account? and my application is a feedback engine wherein we are charging user for subscription so i choose business account and received a mail from bit.ly that per month i need to pay $1995.. is custom domain name in bit.ly will cost this much?
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what you want is a url shortener algorithm you can google that if it would help – bjhaid Jan 07 '14 at 20:35
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you can email sales@bitly.com or api@bitly.com if you have questions about integrating and the cost. you can connect the custom domain to Bitly even with a free account – James Socol Jan 08 '14 at 00:30
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what you want is a url shortener algorithm.
Simple explanation with least efforts:
Have a table that you would store your URLs in for lookup, and the id should be auto-incremented(This is default with AR in Rails), convert the id to base 36 with ruby
6788999.to_s(36) #=> "41ifb"
Then you can have a URL as:
foo.com/41ifb
When the request for the shortened URL hits the controller(which you can basically even use bare Routing for) convert the param to an integer:
"41ifb".to_i(36) #=> 6788999
This is a simple basic URL shortener service
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