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Shortening a URL using bitly’s API in C#
Using the snippet below you can convert links in your application from this
1 | http://www.fluxbytes.com/ |
to this
1 | http://bit.ly/WVk1qN |
This is especially important in cases where you have a fairly long URL which you want to post somewhere and you either don’t want to use such a long URL, or simply you are limited by characters. An example of that situation would be a URL such as
1 | http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=c+sharp+convert+string+to+binary&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CDQQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fluxbytes.com%2Fcsharp%2Fconvert-string-to-binary-and-binary-to-string-in-c%2F&ei=T79SUcOVI4rEPOeogPgP&usg=AFQjCNEihqo_KsRZuGpb0-ZpWdqjdqr_sA |
which can be shortened down to
1 | http://bit.ly/WVuXF4 |
The first thing you are going to need it an account from bitly.com. After you have created an account, log in and navigate to https://bitly.com/a/your_api_key. The page will contain your username and your API key which are both needed.
