A Ruby wrapper for various url shortener services

create a dependency in your Gemfile
gem 'shortly' then run
bundle install
and shortly will be up and running. or gem install shortly

Currently Shortly supports three services (Bit.ly, Goo.gl, is.gd, tinyurl) Please do cross check by running Shortly.active_services. All supported methods have been provided for all services, so you can expect at least one method(shorten) will be available for every service.

Bit.ly

bitly = Shortly::Clients::Bitly bitly.shorten('http://justatest.com', {:apiKey => 'R_your_api_key', :login => 'your_login'})

Optionally you can set apiKey and login beforehand (it would be more DRY i think if you only gonna use bitly services).

bitly = Shortly::Clients::Bitly
bitly.apiKey = 'your_api_key'
bitly.login = 'your_login'
bitly.shorten('http://justatest.com').url
bitly.expand('http://bit.ly/imshort').long_url

Goo.gl

googl = Shortly::Clients::Googl
googl.shorten('http://justatest.com').short_url

Is.gd

isgd = Shortly::Clients::Isgd
isgd.shorten('http://justatest.com').shorturl

Tinyurl.com

tinyurl = Shortly::Clients::Tinyurl
tinyurl.shorten('http://justatest.com').shorturl

Shortly also provides command line utility. See some uses below.
shortly 'http://shortme.com/'

By default it uses Googl to short urls but you can specify which service to use. Type shortly -h for more info
shortly 'http://shortme.com/' -s bitly -l '<your-login>' -p '<your-apiKey>' -m method-to-use

here are options and there possible values:

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