altmetric / embiggen

A Ruby library to expand shortened URLs
https://rubygems.org/gems/embiggen
MIT License
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Add 531 shorteners & remove misleading example #29

Closed mudge closed 7 years ago

mudge commented 7 years ago

As raised in #28, the ExpandEverything example in the README is misleading as it will inevitably raise a BadShortenedURI exception as it attempts to follow every URL including those that return a 200.

As Embiggen is designed specifically for high throughput cases where following every URL is not feasible (e.g. processing thousands of links in a short space of time), remove this example.