Shortybit

Ruby Library for accessing Bitly's API for these specific endpoints:

• /v3/user/link_save
• /v3/user/link_history
• /v3/user/clicks

To use this gem, you need a bit.ly access token. To register go to bitly.com.
If you already have a bit.ly account:

• Navigate to the collapsable hamburger menu(your account) at the top right corner of the page
• Click on 'Settings'
• Click on 'Advanced Settings'
• Click on 'API Support' or 'OAuth'
• If you clicked on 'API support' then click on 'Generic Access Tokens' in blue
• If you clicked on 'OAuth' then click on 'Generic Access Token'
• Put in your password then click the orange 'Generate Token' button at the bottom

Dependencies

• Ruby 2.2.5
• bundler
• RubyGems

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'shortybit'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install shortybit

Usage

Create a client using your access token as follows:

  # Create a client
  client = Shortybit::Client.new('your_bitly_access_token')

  # Result 
  #<Shortybit::Client:0x007fee034de178 @access_token="your_bitly_access_token">

You can now use that client to expose the data from the API:

  # Get the entries from your link history in reverse chronological order
  client.link_history(client) #=> Returns a hash of the specific user link history data from Bitly

  # Result
    {
      "has_link_deeplinks": false,
      "archived": false,
      "user_ts": 1522824170,
      "title": "reddit: the front page of the internet",
      "created_at": 1522824170,
      "tags": [],
      "modified_at": 1522824170,
      "campaign_ids": [],
      "private": true,
      "aggregate_link": "http://bit.ly/grRCQh",
      "long_url": "https://www.reddit.com/",
      "client_id": "a5e8cebb233c5d07e5c553e917dffb92fec5264d",
      "link": "http://bit.ly/2uNgpk4",
      "is_domain_deeplink": false,
      "encoding_user": {
          "login": "o_k9q7gj1kj",
          "display_name": "Lani Berry",
          "full_name": "Lani Berry"
      }
    },
    {
      "has_link_deeplinks": false,
      "archived": false,
      "user_ts": 1522816641,
      "title": "Google",
      "created_at": 1522816641,
      "tags": [],
      "modified_at": 1522816641,
      "campaign_ids": [],
      "private": true,
      "aggregate_link": "http://bit.ly/2V6CFi",
      "long_url": "http://www.google.com/",
      "client_id": "",
      "link": "http://bit.ly/2Gvv58L",
      "is_domain_deeplink": false,
      "encoding_user": {
          "login": "o_k9q7gj1kj",
          "display_name": "Lani Berry",
          "full_name": "Lani Berry"
      }
    }

  # Get amount of clicks for a specific link
  client.get_clicks(client, "http://bit.ly/2GQBVJn") #=> Returns a Fixnum

  # Result 
  2

  # Save a long URL as a Bitlink in a user's history. Also returns a short URL for that link.
  client.link_save(client, "https://www.reddit.com/") #=> Returns a hash with the original URL and short URL 

  # Result
    {
      "link"=>"http://bit.ly/2uNgpk4", 
      "aggregate_link"=>"http://bit.ly/grRCQh", 
      "long_url"=>"https://www.reddit.com/", 
      "new_link"=>1, "user_hash"=>"2uNgpk4"
    }

Tests

Tests can be run with this command from the root of the project in terminal: $bundle exec ruby test/shortybit/client_test.rb

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

That's a wrap