URL Shortener APIs

71 URL-Shortener APIs: Bit.ly, Google URL Shortener and Tiny-URL Open
Bit.ly

The article focuses on URL-Shortener APIs that appear in ProgrammableWeb's API directory. It includes Proofeditors.com and the popular Bit.ly API. Special features of the APIs include added security, special tools, and shortening for unique platforms. Also listed: 32 Bit.ly mashups.

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Wendell Santos

Tools, Directories, URL Shortener

10-31-2012

URL Shortening Goes Enterprise with BudURL.Pro
BudURL.ProBudURL

Link shortening is no longer just something you do to fit into tweets or keep emails from wrapping. For many, especially those in marketing, it's also a great way to track clicks as their content gets spread across the web. BudURL keeps its focus on fulfilling the link shortening needs of businesses. And now it's added a professional version with custom URLs, analytics and a BudURL.Pro API to access it all.

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Adam DuVander

URL Shortener

10-26-2010

What Twitter's t.co Means for Link Shortener APIs
Twitter

Twitter recently announced what developers have been expecting since at least its Chirp conference. Links posted to Twitter will soon be passed through the company's own link shortener, t.co. It could be bad news for other services built to fill the link shortening need, such as Bit.ly (our Bit.ly API profile).

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Adam DuVander

Social, URL Shortener

06-10-2010

Bit.ly Improves Their Popular URL Shortening API
Bit.ly

It is not uncommon to hear services promoting themselves as having more bandwidth, more storage and more speed. Despite this services like Twitter and SMS are incredibly popular despite only being able to send one or two sentences at a time. The economy of these messaging services has made URL shortening services like bit.ly necessary. Given its integration into 3rd party sites, it’s not surprising that bit.ly also has an accompanying API, which has just gotten an overhaul with version 3.

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Matthew Casperson

Tools, Social, URL Shortener

04-06-2010

Why Are You So Popular, bit.ly?
Bit.ly

Hey there, bit.ly. You've been garnering your share of praise--and jealous criticism--lately. It's barely past your first birthday and you've raised a few million in venture capital and are going steady with Twitter, one of the hottest sites of the moment. Your competitors publicly proclaim you as unbeatable. What's your secret, bit.ly?

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Adam DuVander

URL Shortener

09-18-2009