NAME WWW::Shorten::VGd - shorten (or lengthen) URLs with http://v.gd

VERSION version 0.003

SYNOPSIS use WWW::Shorten::VGd; use WWW::Shorten 'VGd';

    my $url = q{http://averylong.link/wow?thats=really&really=long};
    my $short_url = makeashorterlink($url);
    my $long_url  = makealongerlink($short_url); # eq $url

DESCRIPTION A Perl interface to the web site http://v.gd. v.gd simply maintains a database of long URLs, each of which has a unique identifier. By default, this URL shortening service will show you a preview page before redirecting you. This can be turned off by setting a cookie at http://v.gd/previews.php.

FUNCTIONS makeashorterlink The function "makeashorterlink" will call the v.gd web site passing it your long URL and will return the shortened link.

makealongerlink The function "makealongerlink" does the reverse. "makealongerlink" will accept as an argument either the full TinyURL URL or just the TinyURL identifier.

If anything goes wrong, then either function will return "undef".

AVAILABILITY The project homepage is http://p3rl.org/WWW::Shorten::VGd.

The latest version of this module is available from the Comprehensive
Perl Archive Network (CPAN). Visit <http://www.perl.com/CPAN/> to find a
CPAN site near you, or see
<http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-Shorten-VGd/>.

The development version lives at
<http://github.com/doherty/WWW-Shorten-VGd> and may be cloned from
<git://github.com/doherty/WWW-Shorten-VGd.git>. Instead of sending
patches, please fork this project using the standard git and github
infrastructure.

SOURCE The development version is on github at http://github.com/doherty/WWW-Shorten-VGd and may be cloned from git://github.com/doherty/WWW-Shorten-VGd.git

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS No bugs have been reported.

Please report any bugs or feature requests through the web interface at
<https://github.com/doherty/WWW-Shorten-VGd/issues>.

AUTHOR Mike Doherty [email protected]

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Mike Doherty.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.