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Bitly::Client

A super simple, one-way client for using Bitly's API for shortening long URLs. This was created to support a legacy app on Ruby 1.9.3 and Rails 3.1 because many other shortening clients require Ruby 2.0+.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'bitly-client-legacy'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install bitly-client-legacy

Usage

Bitly::Client.shorten("https://lyconic.com/2016/11/21/tips-hiring-quality-security-guards-officers/")

Config

your_app/config/initializers/bitly_client.rb

require "bitly/client"

Bitly::Client.configure do |config|
  config.api_token = YOUR_GENERIC_OATH_ACCESS_TOKEN
  config.api_url = BITLY_API_SHORTEN_URL # e.g. https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v4/shorten
end

Get a Bitly generic access token

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/lyconic/bitly-client-legacy.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

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