UrlShortener Library

This library helps you to generate shortlinks for long url using different URL Shorteners.

Supportet URL Shortener

• Bitly
• Google UrlShortener
• Tiny-URL
• Ow.ly
• Is.gd
• V.gd

Installation

The preferred way to install this library is to use Composer.

    $ composer require twodevs/url-shortener ~1.0

Choose a http client support by Ivory HttpAdapter

    $ composer require guzzlehttp/guzzle ~5.0

General Usage

    // Create a client
    $client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client(['defaults' => ['verify' => false]]);
    
    // Create the Adapter
    $adapter = new \Ivory\HttpAdapter\GuzzleHttpHttpAdapter($client);
    
    // Create BitlyShortener
    $shorter = new \TwoDevs\UrlShortener\Provider\BitlyProvider($adapter, ['access_token' => 'your-token']));
    
    // Shorten a long url
    $shortUrl = $shorter->shorten('http://example.org');
    
    // Expand a short url
    $longUrl = $shorter->expand($shortUrl);
    
    var_dump( (string) $shortUrl );
    var_dump( (string) $longUrl );

Using chain provider

    // Create a client
    $client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client(['defaults' => ['verify' => false]]);
    
    // Create the Adapter
    $adapter = new \Ivory\HttpAdapter\GuzzleHttpHttpAdapter($client);
    
    // Create ChainProvider and attach bitly, google shortener and Tiny-Url
    $shorter  = new \TwoDevs\UrlShortener\Provider\ChainProvider();
    $shorter->addProvider(new \TwoDevs\UrlShortener\Provider\BitlyProvider($adapter, ['access_token' => 'your-token']));
    $shorter->addProvider(new \TwoDevs\UrlShortener\Provider\GoogleProvider($adapter, ['key' => 'your-key']));
    $shorter->addProvider(new \TwoDevs\UrlShortener\Provider\OwlyProvider($adapter, ['key' => 'your-key']));
    $shorter->addProvider(new \TwoDevs\UrlShortener\Provider\TinyUrlProvider($adapter));
    $shorter->addProvider(new \TwoDevs\UrlShortener\Provider\IsgdProvider($adapter));
    $shorter->addProvider(new \TwoDevs\UrlShortener\Provider\VgdUrlProvider($adapter));
    
    // Shorten a long url
    $shortUrl = $shorter->shorten('http://example.org');
    
    // Expand a short url
    $longUrl = $shorter->expand($shortUrl);
    
    var_dump( (string) $shortUrl );
    var_dump( (string) $longUrl );

License

The TwoDevs UrlShortener is under the MIT license. For the full copyright and license information, please read the LICENSE file that was distributed with this source code.