Questions tagged [bit.ly]

Bit.ly is an URL-shortening service

Bitly is an URL-shortening service, which provides an extensive API for programmers to easily integrate URL-shortening services into their own applications. Bitly's API supports JSON and XML, and allows retrieving statistics about specific short URLs.

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What is bitly='BITLY_PROCESSED' in tag?

While i was inspecting facebook html code through with firebug in Chrome, i found this tag : What is the bitly attribute? Anyone has an idea? :)
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How to post a Bitlink shortened URL to input value

Below is the PHP code I'm using for shortening long URLs via Bitly API:
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Restrict Bitly API to specific domain

I'm using jQuery with Bitly API to automate links shortening, but since the code on client side the API key can be easily compromised, regardless of obfuscation. My question: Is there a way to restrict requests to a specific domain? In other words,…
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bit.ly invalid login when accessing from Azure web site

I have developed a ASP.NET MVC web application that accesses bit.ly to shorten a url. I used the .NET NuGet library Bitly.Net as it was referred to in the Bit.ly Code Reference. All worked fine on my local machine, both in Unit Tests and when I ran…
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Where to put Bit.ly API call in Rails app

I'm planning on using Bit.ly Pro and the Bit.ly API to make my own short urls in a Rails 3 project. I've got a User and a Note model. And a url structure like this: '/username/1-note-title'. Now I would like to give each note a short url. But I…
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bit.ly API use issues (shorten, lookup, and clicks)

as part of my time isn't dedicated to PHP dev, I'm having an issue which is probably easy to solve, but having absolutely no logs (PHP logs, browser firebug logs...) I'm pretty stuck. Here's my code; as I'm testing stuff, it's pretty raw. The…
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twitter sharing button bit.ly integration on a static website

I am trying to integrate bit.ly on my website in JS to short my url. All my url are too long, what will be the most straight foward way to use the bit.ly restful api for sharing button on a static website in HTML/javascript. The result I want to…
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bit.ly redirect not functioning properly

I have been going back and forth with my dev teams today to determine an issue that has come up. It appears that links shortened by bit.ly are not being directed to the proper URL on mobile devices only. This URL http://bit.ly/1aRvnqH will take you…
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What are the usage limitations of Bitly shortening API?

I've tried Bitly's shortening API to shorten some URL's and after signing up and getting a username/API key, I've been able to shorten URL's in my local computer. But once, the code got deployed to a test server, the shortening fails. Any idea on…
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Check how many clicks have occurred on a bit.ly link present in a particular tweet

Consider an app where you maintain a leader-board for users of your app. Your app has 10 bit.ly links, that a user must tweet. If the user tweets a link, he gets 5 points. So far I have figured how I must do this, and this is running inside the app…
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How to get bitly clicks (json)?

i am trying to tell the views of bit.ly link and i got the api but i dont know how to integrate it . This is what it appears : {"status_code": 200, "data": {"units": -1, "unit_reference_ts": null, "tz_offset": -4, "unit": "day", "link_clicks":…
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tiny URL api Automati in flex 3

i am working in application of twitter in flex 3 and action script 3 , this in the text area when the user write my application automatically change http address to a short address but i don't know find the address within the text you can help…
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Convert url to bit.ly

For some reason, i can't seem to get my function to convert all url's to bit.ly's. Please keep it so that it still converts url's to hyperlinks. Thanks and Please help!!! function get_short_url(long_url, login, api_key, func) { $.getJSON( …
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Is there an API to determine the most common link in a number of tweets?

Is there an API (Twitter API does not provide this) that I can use to determine the most common links in 200 tweets for example. What I want to do is to get the latest 200 tweets and then determine what are people talking about, I am sure that the…
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Bit.ly API Objective C retrieve access_token

I have a quick question. I want the user to enter his username (email) and password and I want to get an access token from the bit.ly api. I tried so far: NSString *authStr = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@:%@", @"username", @"password"]; NSData…
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