Some shortening services such as bitly allow the creation of accounts that track all the shorten URLs created. I would like to be able to use those accounts and so request that shorten allow both anonymous URL shortening but also allow the user to enter their account details for the service.

Bit.ly's API docs are here http://code.google.com/p/bitly-api/wiki/ApiDocumentation

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icecreamyou commented
Assigned: Unassigned » icecreamyou
Status: Active » Postponed

This is possible as long as authentication is allowed via a GET request, which bit.ly allows. I will have no time to work on this for the next week or two at least though, so I'm marking this as postponed.

Rest assured that I will get to it though.

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simoncast commented

Hi,

Thank you for the quick response.

Regards,

Simon

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jamessmall commented

Hi.

I'd love to see this functionality integrated into the Shorten URLs module. Any progress?

Thanks
Jim

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icecreamyou commented

If there was progress, this issue wouldn't be postponed. ;)

I'm hoping to get this done before August 7th, but I can't promise anything. It's really not that difficult to do, I'm just too busy right now.

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nickbn commented

I would be willing to pay a substantial bounty to have someone add this functionality and a little bit more.... The functionality I'm looking for:

- Custom short URLs
- More statistics. Number of clicks/uses, referring sites, timestamps with each use for plotting on a timeline. Also ideas as lower priority: user browser, geographic location.
- View statistics by user. So if a user is logged in when they shorten, they should be able to view their stats for their shortened URLs.
- An interface to manage shortened URLs. (Edit, Delete, Create) Maintenance.
- The stats will be displayed graphically, maybe views module integration would be best for this? So that one could possibly use a charting module...?

Basically, the Shorten URLs module already records some stats, I just need it to record more. Then be able to pull those stats by user through the views module.

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icecreamyou commented

Please keep discussion to the topic of the issue.

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icecreamyou commented

Well, it's almost August 7th, and I'm going out of town tomorrow and the next day, so it doesn't look like this is going to get done by then. However, it's near the top of my coding to-do list so it should happen within the next week or two.

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icecreamyou commented
Version: 6.x-1.2 » 6.x-1.x-dev
Status: Postponed » Fixed

Woot! In dev for now, I think I'll add Token support before releasing a new official version.

The module now supports bit.ly and adjix.com as well as the optional API key for cli.gs.

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kjholla commented

Hello,

Where can I download the dev build of this module which contains the fix for bit.ly please?

Regards,
KH

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kjholla commented

Found it! Apologies, did not notice that I had not set the permissions correctly to enable Shorten API Keys.

Regards,
KH

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.