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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Can we count how many times an item has been shared in Google Reader?

This is related to recent "Google Buzz Count" feature on famous blog Mashable - http://mashable.com/2010/02/12/google-buzz-buttons-count/ While trying to dig into logic they are using for "Google Buzz Count", I somehow reached to the conclusion…
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How to get the number of clicks on a Bit.ly or goo.gl link?

I am looking for a way to "catch" the total number of clicks on a Bit.ly or goo.gl link. For example: (numberofclick) 244 (/numberofclick) people clicked on this link I need it to use on Blogger. There any way to do this?
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Track curl requests with URL Shortener

How would I structure a curl command to have it recognized by a URL shortener? When I run the command below using a url shortened from either bit.ly or goo.gl, the request is not recognized by either service. curl -L "http://bit.ly/1efYimy"
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Android: Internal Linkify does not work properly, and text, images flicker inside ListView

I enabled the Linkify property of a textview as follows: txtbox.setAutoLinkMask(Linkify.WEB_URLS); But, when there are URLs like bit.ly are present (which is very common nowadays in messages like tweets), it doesn't display them properly. The…
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Function Google Script to display Bitly Count Links on a cell of spreadsheet Google Docs

How can a create a function that calls this API URL of bitly https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v3/link/clicks to get the number of clicks of one given link. When i call i get this: {"status_code": 200, "data": {"units": -1, "unit_reference_ts": null,…
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Need to generate custome url for bit.ly?

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…
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Bitly oAuth "Resource Owner Credentials Grants" returning INVALID_LOGIN

I am writing PHP API for Bit.ly using oauth2 for authentication. Their docs say that in order to retrieve access token with username and password we have 2 ways of achieving that: Resource Owner Credentials Grants HTTP Basic Authentication I was…
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firefox: bit.ly links in the sidebar of a customised wordpress blog gives a 404 error

I have twitter status updates showing on the sidebar of the blog which often has the bit.ly or ow.ly links as well. But everytime I click on it in the firefox browser it gives me a 404 error because it tries for the following url:…
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Bit.ly URL Caching Issue

This seems to be a serious issues with Bit.ly URL shortening service. Actually, I have created a bit.ly URL1 like "http://bit.ly/xyzabcd" to my URL2 "www.myserver.com/myjson.txt". Case 1: Hitting the bitly URL1 I am getting the response whatever it…
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Parse data returned from j.mp

I'm currently writing an iPhone application, that posts a long url to j.mp (bit.ly). It is fully working and posts the long url successfully. But when I want to copy the returned data into an UITextView, I just get some JSON Data. Now my question:…
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Why can't I call bit.ly API from JavaScript using jQuery's $.get function?

I tried to call bit.ly API using this jQuery script: $.get('http://api.bit.ly/shorten?login=bitlyapidemo&apiKey=R_0da49e0a9118ff35f52f629d2d71bf07&version=2.0.1&longUrl=www.wordpress.com', function(data) { alert(data); }); but firebug said "405…
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Difference between these two bit.ly API ActionScript implementations?

I'm new to Flex and wondering what the difference is between these two ActionScript implementations of the bit.ly API: http://github.com/julien/as3_bitly http://code.google.com/p/bitly-as3-api/ One thing I noticed is that one comes in .as files and…
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How do a I get a bit.ly to point to a https URL?

I have a bit.ly account, with a customized short URL. However, I want to turn off http and turn on https. I can't figure out how to get bit.ly to point to a HTTPS URL. Is there a way? Thanks.
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Sorting arrays numerically

I have a PHP array that I need to sort. I have included the example array below. I need to put the top 10 number of URLS plus their perspective counts in a different array. I know I could run into problem if there aren't 10 top matches ... if that…
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How to automatically track when a bit.ly link has been clicked x times

I'm looking into running a promotion where users who tweet a custom bit.ly (or any other url link service) link and have that link clicked by others x times (say, 3 times) will automatically have a piece of content (think a pdf) unlocked for…
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