I'm looking for an on the fly URL shortener much like how tweetdeck works. I have found many jQuery and general javascript plugins that take a url and run it through a shortening service such as bi...

I'm playing a bit with Javascript these days... I was shrinking some URLs using bit.ly to tweet them, then I started to think on a automated process that could use their API to shrink the URLs I wa...

I've built my own Twitter app in PHP with the front end using Twitter Bootstrap as the framework. I want to build a composer window, so that my app can post a tweet (or a reply). It would need to ...

I am trying to develop a URL shortener application for practice with Django. I do not understand how can I create unique strings for each long URL to use as a short URL. Something like other popula...

Are there any open source URL shortening software projects out there? Perhaps something that works in conjunction with Apache?

There are a lot of questions here on stackoverflow regarding URL shorteners as well as elsewhere on the internet, e.g. How to code a URL shortener? How do URL shortener calculate the URL ke...

I am wondering about the difference between 301 and 307 redirects. I am looking to generate backlinks through a home-brew url redirector, and I wish for any of the "link juice" or "page rank juice...

I am using the Bitly gem (https://github.com/philnash/bitly) for Bitly API Version 3 I get an error while shortening the URL when the application is deployed to Heroku. Locally the shortening work...

We're implementing a short url service where the redirection target will be changing daily. The urls will be accessed by mobile devices and will always be GET requests. I'm trying to understand whi...

How do I go about either making, or retrieving facebook short url's (fb.me) from a page, profile, event etc? I want to update my url shortener site - but if the user links to a facebook page ...

Do you know about any URL shortener that filters out ugly bad words? For example, when goo.gl (or any other URL shortener) generates short URLs, does it skip URLs like goo.gl/evil or goo.gl/...

Now, this is not strictly about URL shortening, but my purpose is such anyway, so let's view it like that. Of course the steps to URL shortening are: Take the full URL Generate a unique short str...

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'm creating a link shortening service and I'm using base64 encoding/decoding of an incremented ID field to create my urls. A url with the ID "6" would be: http://mysite.com/Ng== I need to also al...

i want to uniquely shorten strings-file ids to use in urls like the ones on bit.ly etc. I can use ids from a db but i want urls to be random like. what would be the best solution? site will be a ...

I'm adding a feature to my project where we are generating links to internal stuff of our website, and we want these links to be as short as possible, so we'll be making our own "URL Shortener". I...