URL Shortening and Expanding Services

hupili / snsapi

Cross platform middleware for Social Networking Services: Twitter, Facebook, SinaWeibo, Renren, RSS, Email, Sqlite, ... (more coming)

http://snsapi.ie.cuhk.edu.hk

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Open hupili opened 11 years ago

hupili commented 11 years ago

We need this in our utility collection.

Expand url if it is from URL shortening services. This help downflow modules to make better decision.
Shorten the URLs contained in a message before posting (forwarding).
Some URLs are shortened several times. Recursive expanding is needed.

hupili commented 11 years ago

The expansion can be implemented in snsbase. It's a matter of HTTP requests.
Many OSN platforms provide URL shortening services. However, they require authorisation (or valid app_key/app_secret) before using it. If we can find and wrap some global services, that will be better. e.g. bitly (is it behind GFW?)