tinyurl

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, specifically C# in ASP.NET? You should probably add some error checking, etc, but this is probably the easiest way to do it: System.Uri address = new System.Uri("http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=" + YOUR ADDRESS GOES HERE); System.Net.WebClient client = new System.Net.WebClient(); string tinyUrl = client.DownloadString(address); Console.WriteLine(tinyUrl); After doing some more research ... I

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 the history of the mapping? How do they ensure the uniqueness of the shortened url? How can a lay man unmap it without visiting the URL? Wiki Is Your Friend Basically, a website with a shorter name is used as a place holder, such as bit.ly. Then, bit.ly generates a key for the user to provide, which is randomly generated to not repeat. With 35 character options and 8 or so values, do the math. That's a lot

How can I make unique URL in Python a la http://imgur.com/gM19g or http://tumblr.com/xzh3bi25y When using uuid from python I get a very large one. I want something shorter for URLs. FogleBird Edit : Here, I wrote a module for you. Use it. http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576918/ Counting up from 1 will guarantee short, unique URLS. /1, /2, /3 ... etc. Adding uppercase and lowercase letters to your alphabet will give URLs like those in your question. And you're just counting in base-62 instead of base-10. Now the only problem is that the URLs come consecutively. To fix that, read my answer