NAME
WWW::Shorten::URLchen - Perl interface to tinyurl.com
SYNOPSIS
use WWW::Shorten 'URLchen';
$short_url = makeashorterlink($long_url);
$long_url = makealongerlink($short_url);
DESCRIPTION
A Perl interface to the web site urlchen.de. URLchen simply maintains a database of long URLs, each of which has a unique identifier.
Functions
makeashorterlink
The function makeashorterlink
will call the URLchen web site passing it your long URL and will return the shorter URLchen version.
makealongerlink
The function makealongerlink
does the reverse. makealongerlink
will accept as an argument either the full URLchen URL or just the URLchen identifier.
If anything goes wrong, then either function will return undef
.
EXPORT
makeashorterlink, makealongerlink
SUPPORT, LICENCE, THANKS and SUCH
See the main WWW::Shorten docs.
AUTHOR
Danijel Tasov <data@cpan.org>