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

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.

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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?