I found the following code to create a tinyurl‍.com URL: http‍://tinyurl‍.com/api-create.php?url=http://myurl.com This will automatically create a tinyurl URL. Is there a way to do this using code,...

How can I make unique URL in Python a la https://i.stack.imgur.com/turb6.jpg or http://tumblr.com/xzh3bi25y When using uuid from python I get a very large one. I want something shorter for URLs.

I'm interested in creating tiny url like links. My idea was to simply store an incrementing identifier for every long url posted and then convert this id to it's base 36 variant, like the following...

I have just scraped a bunch of Google Buzz data, and I want to know which Buzz posts reference the same news articles. The problem is that many of the links in these posts have been modified by URL...

I wonder how a URL Shortener works, like how they extract the text from address bar and map it to correct URL, later redirect it. What programming language do they use? How do they maintain t...

I have been wondering how tiny url works. I would like to develop something similar for my site, but as most people, I use GUIDs for ids. When an object is created, should I then generate a 10 cha...

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...

I am just learning python and is interested in how this can be accomplished. During the search for the answer, I came across this service: http://www.longurlplease.com For example: http://bit.l...