Alekkus ยป Empowering social media with Flash » url http://alekkus.com/blog flex consultant + social media specialist Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:54:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 A dead simple way to shorten url using TinyURL API http://alekkus.com/blog/2009/03/a-dead-simple-way-to-shorten-url-using-tinyurl-api/ http://alekkus.com/blog/2009/03/a-dead-simple-way-to-shorten-url-using-tinyurl-api/#comments Sun, 01 Mar 2009 09:36:15 +0000 Alekkus http://alekkus.com/blog/?p=221 Folks using Twitter would appreciate the notion of shortening url given that each post in Twitter is limited to 140 characters. Several services exist, but among them, only TinyURL hosts a cross-domain policy file. That means we can use the TinyURL API to shorten url without the need of a proxy server.

The API is damn simple; just make a call to:

http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=<longish url>

Demo:
Shorten URL (view source enabled)

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