This is an awesome mod thank you for your contribution. I have my own url shortener and i would like to use it instead of bit.ly. The shortener is
http://www.bfx.me
I tried substituting the URL of bit.ly with bfx.me - it comes up but the url does not automatically go into the field provided. Can anyone help me to get this to work?
Edit:
Well i got it to work a little bit. I found this on the
http://bfx.me site:
Code:
Shortening a URL with the bfx.me API is very simple, all you need to do is send a get request to the API passing through the URL you wish to shorten.
To shorten http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-7-piracy-check-update-goes-live request:
http://bfx.me/api.php?u=http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-7-piracy-check-update-goes-live
The API will return the shortened URL http://bfx.me/jZ2qi
To retrieve the original URL from the API, all you need to do is send a get request to the API passing through the shortened URL (or the last 5 characters).
To expand http://bfx.me/jZ2qi request:
http://bfx.me/api.php?r=http://bfx.me/jZ2qi
or http://bfx.me/api.php?r=jZ2qi
The API will return the original URL http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-7-piracy-check-update-goes-live
So I use this:
Code:
http://bfx.me/api.php?u
Instead of this:
It will return the shortened url but will not function the site properly. What I mean by that is if you go to the bfx.me and shorten a url it eill return the shortened url and a barcode as well and will also alow you to tweet the url. From what I did it just comes up as a white screen with the shortened url in the upper left corner. The shortened url is right but I would like it to return to the bfx.me page where it will display the bardcode and the tweet option.
Any help would be appreciated...