URL shortener HACK #1

This week I am planning to create URL shortener client.

Plan :

– Collect Information how URL shortener work.

One could say

f( some long url) = shortened URL

very good link to follow to understand how URL Shortener is :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_shortening

http://www.quora.com/How-does-a-URL-shortener-work

– Look for the design and implementation for URL Shortener.

google is providing list of api on various language:

https://developers.google.com/url-shortener/libraries

https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#p/urlshortener/v1/

I collected the sample application on python form the google page.

TODO : I found one page to read, it is related to Authentication.

– Choose a suitable language to start working ( possibly python/C).

I started with python as I mentioned that I got sample application from google page. It makes things too easy.

Here I am posting the code to call the URLShortener api.

67 def list(items):
68 print ‘-‘*100;
69 for item in items:
70 print ‘%-90s %-3d’% (item[‘longUrl’], int(item[‘analytics’][‘allTime’][‘shortUrlClicks’]))
71 #print type(item[‘analytics’][‘allTime’][‘shortUrlClicks’])
72 print ‘-‘*100;

86 # Create an httplib2.Http object to handle our HTTP requests and authorize it
87 # with our good Credentials.
88 http = httplib2.Http()
89 http = credentials.authorize(http)
90
91 # Construct the service object for the interacting with the URL Shortener API.
92 service = discovery.build(‘urlshortener’, ‘v1′, http=http)
93
94 try:
95 print “Success! Now add code here.”
96 url = service.url()
97 resp = url.list(projection=’FULL’).execute()
98 items = resp[‘items’]
99 list(items)
100
101 except client.AccessTokenRefreshError:
102 print (“The credentials have been revoked or expired, please re-run”
103 “the application to re-authorize”)
104

Here, I called the URLShortener api and collected the all the list of shortened URL, (one good thing I found on the api is that I could count clicks on my click).

Code can be grabbed at github.

-Integrate with mobile application (IOS/Android).

The same api is for number of language. Now I am thinking to move to use this api for the objectiveC.

At the same time I found the things for them I am curious :

– Using Curl, to call the rest api using C.

– Go language, I would like to go and read this language.

-Think of creating MAC Desktop Application ( this is yes/no question.).

 

Here week has ended. So this hack was “incomplete”.

Completion – 30%

backlogs –

Writing an iOS application for URL shortening (I will try to meet this backlog next weekend).