jQuery on the fly URL shortener

Question

I\'m looking for an on the fly URL shortener much like how tweetdeck works. I have found many jQuery and general javascript plugins that take a url and run it through a shor

Answer 1

I guess the API of Bitly has changed slightly. You now only really need an access token to request a short URL.

Following the best practices, I created the following Javascript-only snippet:

getShortUrl: function(url, callback)
{
   var accessToken = '___YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN___';
   var url = 'https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v3/shorten?access_token=' + accessToken + '&longUrl=' + encodeURIComponent(url);

    $.getJSON(
        url,
        {},
        function(response)
        {
            if(callback)
                callback(response.data.url);
        }
    );
},