I am working with Node.js , and trying to shorten a long URL , i am trying to connect to google shortener API , if found in the API documentation for Node.js
but it only has codes for convert the short URL to a long URL ,
And i found node-google-url-shorter
this doesn't use an API key , since i may send over 10,000 request per day this is not good and it is not a maintaining repo i think .
and this one google-url , seems this one is depicted as well .
So is there any other good node modules .
I want to shorten a long URL .
Thank you in advance :)
I will answer my own question since there are no answers , i found a node module .
to get a shorter URL you have to call
client.urlshortener.url.insert
Here is an example
function get_shorter_url(config,long_url,callback) {
var googleapis = require('googleapis-plus');
var api_key = "your api key";
var long_url = "your long url";
try {
googleapis
.discover('urlshortener', 'v1')
.execute(function(err, client) {
if( err) { // handle discovery errors
callback(err);
} else {
var getShortUrl = client.urlshortener.url.insert({ longUrl: long_url })
.withApiKey(api_key);
getShortUrl.execute(function(err, shortUrlDetails) {
if(err) {
callback(err);
} else {
callback(null,shortUrlDetails.id);
}
});
}
});
} catch ( err ) {
console.log("there was an exception "+err);
callback(err, null);
}
}