jqueryjquery-pluginstinyurl

How to use jQuery to produce TinyURL


I'm trying to build a jQuery function that will allow me to produce a TinyURL from some other link for micro blogging reasons (yes, twitter)... I found this tutorial from James Padolsey, but am not getting a response back from the call.

http://james.padolsey.com/javascript/create-a-tinyurl-with-jsonp/

function requestShortURL(longURL, success) {
    var API = 'http://reque.st/create.api.php?json&url=',
        URL = API + encodeURIComponent(longURL) + '&callback=?';
    console.log('tweet apit url: ' + URL);
    $.getJSON(URL, function(data){
        success && success(data.url);
    });
}

requestShortURL('http://www.mycompany.com', function(shortened){
    alert('new url: ' + shortened);
});

Solution

  • Hm that seems to work fine for me:

    function makeTinyUrl(url)
    {
        $.getJSON('http://json-tinyurl.appspot.com/?url=' + url + '&callback=?', 
            function(data)
            { 
                alert(data.tinyurl); 
            }
        );
    }
    
    makeTinyUrl('http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1111171/how-to-use-jquery-to-produce-tinyurl');