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Google Code Blog: Google URL Shortener gets an API

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Post by motvbi » Mon, Jan 10, 2011, 10:01 PM UTC

Google Code Blog: Google URL Shortener gets an API
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Re: Google Code Blog: Google URL Shortener gets an API

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Post by togasystems » Mon, Jan 10, 2011, 11:04 PM UTC

Does it include the QR generator?

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Post by togasystems » Mon, Jan 10, 2011, 11:04 PM UTC

Does it include the QR generator?

Re: Google Code Blog: Google URL Shortener gets an API

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Post by NathanKP » Mon, Jan 10, 2011, 11:18 PM UTC

That's nice. I've been using the following piece of sneaky ghetto code to take advantage of Google Toolbar's URL shortening API:

http://codepaste.net/48qfb7

But now I'll be able to shorten URL's with an official API rather than using a hack. I don't know why Google didn't make a public API from the start.

Re: Google Code Blog: Google URL Shortener gets an API

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Post by burgerbrain » Mon, Jan 10, 2011, 11:37 PM UTC

Now if only they would start using this. Google Maps' permalinks are absolutely terrible for example...

Re: Google Code Blog: Google URL Shortener gets an API

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Post by RossM » Tue, Jan 11, 2011, 12:04 AM UTC

togasystems wrote: post #2

Does it include the QR generator?

The QR code generator's always been available from the Chart API[1]

[1] http://code.google.com/apis/chart/docs/gallery/qr_codes.html

Re: Google Code Blog: Google URL Shortener gets an API

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Post by jedc » Tue, Jan 11, 2011, 12:40 AM UTC

burgerbrain wrote: post #5

Now if only they would start using this. Google Maps' permalinks are absolutely terrible for example...

1. Go to Google Maps.

2. Click "Labs"

3. Enable "Short URL" lab.

Problem sorted!

Re: Google Code Blog: Google URL Shortener gets an API

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Post by joshfraser » Tue, Jan 11, 2011, 1:18 AM UTC

Thanks Google, but we're already happy with bit.ly. URL shorteners were hot a year ago. Now, not so much.

Re: Google Code Blog: Google URL Shortener gets an API

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Post by schumihan » Tue, Jan 11, 2011, 1:38 AM UTC

If I tries to shorten the url of http://google.com several times, goo.gl always give back different result. I just wonder will goo.gl merge theses url together sometime later?

This interesting found implies how goo.gl is designed. They prefer writing directly to avoid duplication check and random seek caused by the check. And they though most of the urls are cold so it is not essential to merge them together to keep the hot cache small.

Or they assume nobody wants to play the system in this way. :-)

Re: Google Code Blog: Google URL Shortener gets an API

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Post by antimatter15 » Tue, Jan 11, 2011, 2:27 AM UTC

A few apps have been using the exact same API (though it wasn't officially documented until now) for some time now.

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