bitly4laravel

Provides a Laravel package to communicate with Bit.ly API.

In order to use this package you need to get OAuth Generic Access Token from Bitly website.

Instalation

Warning this is v3 version of bitly4laravel package. If you want to use the old v2 version use the v2 branch.

Add bitly4laravel to your composer.json file.

require : {
    "jelovac/bitly4laravel": "3.*"
}

Or with composer command:

composer require "jelovac/bitly4laravel": "3.*"

Add provider to your app/config/app.php providers

'Jelovac\Bitly4laravel\Bitly4laravelServiceProvider',

Publish config

For Laravel 5 use:

php artisan vendor:publish

For Laravel 4 use:

php artisan config:publish jelovac/bitly4laravel

Optional (recommended)

Add alias to app/config/app.php aliases

'Bitly' => 'Jelovac\Bitly4laravel\Facades\Bitly4laravel',

Usage

Shorten links

Bitly::shorten('http://google.com/');

Response format: JSON

{
    "data": {
      "global_hash": "900913",
      "hash": "ze6poY",
      "long_url": "http://google.com/",
      "new_hash": 0,
      "url": "http://bit.ly/ze6poY"
    },
    "status_code": 200,
    "status_txt": "OK"
}

Expand links

Bitly::expand('http://bit.ly/ze6poY');

Response format: JSON

{
    "data": {
      "expand": [
        {
          "global_hash": "900913",
          "long_url": "http://google.com/",
          "short_url": "http://bit.ly/ze6poY",
          "user_hash": "ze6poY"
        }
      ]
    },
    "status_code": 200,
    "status_txt": "OK"
}

Repository

https://github.com/jelovac/bitly4laravel

License

The Bitly4laravel package is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license