I just got a question about bitly url link. I recently use bitly api to covert all my long url to shorten for the purpose of Google Analytic tracking. However when I start sharing bitly url e.g. (bit.ly/liRJca) on twitter, it is still pointing to t.co/xxxx. I know that twitter only allow us to use 140 character to share.
Here is the sharing code I am using for twitter.
$twit = "http://twitter.com/share?url=" . $lists['shortenurl'] . "&text=I like this work! Check it out. Voting starts on 23 May 2011 - amazing Canon Legria prizes to be won!";
The bitly link isn't getting converted to tco. Tco is wrapping the bitly link. Users will hit the tco domain, get redirected to the bitly domain, and then to the long domain.
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Hi I am a web application in ROR and shortening url using bit.ly. whenever i create an url using bit.ly i could custom url like http://bit.ly/19Mk8Oj now i want to remove bit.ly and needs to add my own custom url like ferdy.ly/sdf2323 how to do that?
when i Google about this and found the following url http://support.bitly.com/knowledgebase/articles/76741-how-do-i-set-up-a-custom-short-domain-. now i have a registered domain for this from http://libyanspider.com/m and need help to integrate the custom domain with my bitly account? and my application is a feedback engine wherein we are charging user for subscription so i choose business account and received a mail from bit.ly that per month i need to pay $1995.. is custom domain name in bit.ly will cost this much?
what you want is a url shortener algorithm.
Simple explanation with least efforts:
Have a table that you would store your URLs in for lookup, and the id should be auto-incremented(This is default with AR in Rails), convert the id to base 36 with ruby
6788999.to_s(36) #=> "41ifb"
Then you can have a URL as:
foo.com/41ifb
When the request for the shortened URL hits the controller(which you can basically even use bare Routing for) convert the param to an integer:
"41ifb".to_i(36) #=> 6788999
This is a simple basic URL shortener service
I have a website that I need to access and get the content so I can parse it. This site has no API so I just have to access from the front end. The browser prompts me to log into the website but I do not know how to do this in ruby.
This works for websites that do not require authentication. I can NOT turn the authentication off.
file = open('https://website/')
contents = file.read
There are plenty of examples here mechanize example
If you are looking at http authentication then a similar post is here basic-and-form-authentication-with-mechanize-ruby
Use mechanize to make life easier.
I'm using YoutubeAPI v3.0 to automatically upload videos to my own channel. However the script still needs manual intervention during Oath2.0 authorization. How to make it completely automatic?
1) Access the API using username and password
2) Or find a way to create permanent OAuth2.0 authentication
P/S: I use this script to upload
https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/guides/uploading_a_video
The only thing I can think of is web scraping. Basically, programmatically open the web page and get its HTML. Then find the authorization code, and store it as a string. I don't know if your scripting language of choice can do it, but Python has Beautiful Soup (links at the bottom). The problem, of course, is accessing the contents of a page like that which is pretty clearly designed to be reached by a logged in user from a web browser. I've never done that, but there's some concept of a "login handshake" where you post the data to the server that's needed as you access the page. I've a few links at the bottom.
Anyway, to give you a better idea of what I mean in pseudo-code (for those who may be confused), it'd be something like:
webURL = 'http://any-url.net";
webPageObject = openPage(webURL);
pageHTML = webPageObject.getHTML();
theHTMLTag = searchForTagById(pageHTML, "<p id='oAuthMessage'>");
//And from there, figure out where the string containing the code is.
//Probably just by getting a substring from the end of the text in the <p>
//backward until you reach the length of the oAuth code.
You'll have to look at the page source to know which tags to look for specifically, but this can all just be done programmatically/automatically, as you wanted.
Links:
Login handshake - Scraping from a website that requires a login?
Beautiful Soup - http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
google.gov/webScraping - https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&q=how+to+web+scrape+logged+in+page
You can use get Google OAUTH2 for devices in order to have fully automatic token renewal process.
So all you need now is:
Request a device code and confirmation code
Enter confirmation code to confirm your application have access for specific account
Generate new or renew existing ACCESS_TOKEN for your device code
Upload Video using your device code and valid ACCESS_TOKEN
Here is documentation for it.
And here is some examples.
Using MVC4, I would like to get the recent Tweets (3) of user's without having to request access from them, because that is a pain for the user. This is also because a user may be viewing another user and I would also like to display their Tweets.
This was fairly simple with Twitter API v1:
$.ajax({
url: 'https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?count=3&screen_name=' + twitterUser,
...
});
..but its deprecated and will stop working in about two months from now.
I'm new to Oauth and have struggled to find any good material on how to get a user's Tweets, but I believe the process is a lot more complicated now with the Twitter API v1.1? Ideally, I'd like to achieve everthing in the front end, but think that I now need to do some authentication server side and will have to use MVC?
In order to get any user's Tweets, I was thinking that I could create a Twitter account for my application and use that to get anyone's Tweets, as long as they are not protected.
Does anyone know of any good libraries that I can use to achieve this, or is the out of the box MVC4 Oauth stuff alone enough to do the job?
Any suggestions of where to start, and especially examples would be greatly appreciated.
To use API 1.1, you have to have a Twitter account and a Twitter application and then use OAUTH to authenticate your rate limited requests using GET statuses/show/:id. The only alternative I know is RSS which both Twitter & Facebook have kiiled, briught back and threatened to kill again:
http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name={USERNAME}
I decided to use Linq2Twitter, as this makes use of the V1.1 API.
An MVCDemo example of Linq2Twitter stores the authorised credentials in a SessionStateCredentials object, but I can store the object in cache and persist the authorisation for all users, meaning they won't have to authorise anything. Provided that a user's Tweets aren't protected, the Tweet's for any user should be retrievable this way.
I've used several Twitter apps and they all seem to shorten URLs using the website's own URL shortener instead of bit.ly or tinyurl.com or something. For instance, Amazon's is amzn.to. Is it that these apps are really keeping up with the most popular sites (Amazon, Dell, ESPN, Microsoft, Google, Apple, etc) or is there a metatag, javascript, or something else that I can add to my web application to have it use a custom URL shortener? We have one that we've used forever as our domain name is over 20 characters in length.
Basically, apps that are supporting bit.ly and other URL shorteners can tell who you are and thus shorten the URL appropriately using a custom domain.