URL Shortener

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URL Shortener

Overview

URL shortening is a technique in which a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) may be made substantially shorter in length and still direct to the required page. It is often used for simpler presentation of URLs at social networks and mobile applications.

URL Shortener API

There are plenty of URL Shortner API. The most popular are:

• Google Url Shortener [goo.gl]
• Bit.ly [dev.bitly.com]
• is.gd and v.gd [is.gd]

URL Shortener for Qt

Qt implementation of URL Shortener based on is.gd service and the file download class [qt.io].

Source Code

URL Shortener API provided by is.gd supports json, xml and plain text as a simple response. In certain cases such as mobile applications the simple response is better solution because parsing is not required. The provided implementation is from location2sms [gitorious.org] (an open source mobile application).

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