Comments on: [Tutorial] Accessing the TinyURL “API” from Java

By: sivaraj

sivaraj — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:23:39 +0000

Hi,
I have account in bitly. I have customized twitter implementation with the help of bitly url shorter. Thanks thats great..

Aim : I have to short the url with the help of bitly API. Current implementation is i have sent my url as query string and that process happen beyond my firewall. Is is possible to short the url with the help of your API with in my network.

By: java tutorial

java tutorial — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:55:25 +0000

I was searching for such a site to learn
Hibernate, Spring..applications
now i got
it interesting to know that servlets are used
here..
thanks for sharing.

By: dBune

dBune — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:56:39 +0000

Thanks Peter for sharing the code, and thanks gdoko for the improvements, yes the warnings are gone with the corrected code.

By: » [Tutorial] URL Shortening in Java using bit.ly – It’s Only Software

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:19:10 +0000

[...] while ago, I had written up a tutorial on accessing the TinyURL API from Java. I was recently playing with the bit.ly API and decided to write up a quick tutorial on generating [...]

By: gdoko

gdoko — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:19:36 +0000

Thanks Peter for taking the time to post this. In case someone has difficulties with making the sample code run; try to download: commons-httpclient-3.1.jar, commons-logging-1.1.1.jar, and commons-codec-1.3.jar. Additionally, in order to have the code working without any warnings (due to getResponseBodyAsStream) you can use the following slightly modified version:


import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpException;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethod;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.NameValuePair;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.GetMethod;
 
public abstract class TinyURL {
	public static String getTinyUrl( String fullUrl ) throws HttpException, IOException {

		HttpClient httpclient = new HttpClient();
		HttpMethod method = new GetMethod( "http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php" ); 
		method.setQueryString( new NameValuePair[] { new NameValuePair( "url", fullUrl ) } );
		httpclient.executeMethod( method );

		InputStream is = method.getResponseBodyAsStream();
		StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
		for( int i = is.read(); i != -1; i = is.read() ) {
			sb.append( (char) i );
		}

		String tinyUrl = sb.toString();
		method.releaseConnection();
		return tinyUrl;
	}
}

By: Tweeting tiny URLs using Java « Scotsman on a Horse

Tweeting tiny URLs using Java « Scotsman on a Horse — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:00:50 +0000

[...] » [Tutorial] Accessing the TinyURL “API” from Java – It’s Only Software Recently, I poked around and wrote up a simple Java method to, given a URL (TinyURL supports only GET requests), generate a TinyURL from it in Java. This is really the only “API” supported by the TinyURL service, but it’s a handy one! Published in: [...]

By: pmularien

pmularien — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:44:23 +0000

@DLackey For internal use? Or because you can't hit the TinyURL site from behind the firewall? If you're planning on rolling your own service, have a look at this answer on LinkedIn: Link

By: DLackey

DLackey — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:31:31 +0000

I would be interested in how to build a tinyurl generate for use within a corporate lan and behind a firewall. Can you offer any insight or direction on how to do this?