longurl

This library can be used to expand short URLs such as https://t.co/XdXRudPXH5 and get the URL that is behind the short URL

Install

Install via composer:

{
    "require": {
        "tzfrs/longurl": "0.0.4"
    }
}

Run composer install or composer update.

Attention

This library currently only supports methods for getting services, checking if an URL is a short URL and expanding URLs, because I'm just using it for a project that only needs these features. If you want extra features then just open an issue.

For caching, by default this library uses the /tmp/ directory. If you want to change it, just use the 2nd parameter of the constructor to define the cache path

Getting Started

Note: You can also see the examples.php for more examples.

Basic parsing

<?php
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

$expand = new \tzfrs\LongURL\Endpoints\Expand();
try {
    print $expand->expandURL('https://t.co/XdXRudPXH5'); //https://blog.twitter.com/2013/rich-photo-experience-now-in-embedded-tweets-3
    print $expand->expandURL('https://blog.twitter.com/2013/rich-photo-experience-now-in-embedded-tweets-3'); //https://blog.twitter.com/2013/rich-photo-experience-now-in-embedded-tweets-3
} catch (\tzfrs\LongURL\Exceptions\ExpandException $e) {
    print $e->getMessage();
}

List all services

<?php
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

$services = new \tzfrs\LongURL\Endpoints\Services();
try {
    $services = $services->getServices(); // Object array with all services
} catch (\tzfrs\LongURL\Exceptions\ServicesException $e) {
    print $e->getMessage();
}

Check if is a short URL

<?php
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

$services = new \tzfrs\LongURL\Endpoints\Services();
try {
    $services->isShortURL('https://t.co/XdXRudPXH5'); // True
    $services->isShortURL('https://blog.twitter.com/2013/rich-photo-experience-now-in-embedded-tweets-3'); // False
} catch (\tzfrs\LongURL\Exceptions\ServicesException $e) {
    print $e->getMessage();
}