NAME

WWW::Shorten::5gp - Shorten URLs using http://5.gp

SYNOPSIS

use strict;
use warnings;

use WWW::Shorten::5gp;
# use WWW::Shorten '5gp';  # or, this way

my $short_url = makeashorterlink('http://www.foo.com/some/long/url');
my $long_url  = makealongerlink($short_url);

DESCRIPTION

A Perl interface to the web site http://5.gp. The service simply maintains a database of long URLs, each of which has a unique identifier.

FUNCTIONS

makeashorterlink

The function makeashorterlink will call the http://5gp web site passing it your long URL and will return the shorter version.

makealongerlink

The function makealongerlink does the reverse. makealongerlink will accept as an argument either the full URL or just the identifier.

If anything goes wrong, then either function will return undef.

AUTHOR

Michiel Beijen <[email protected]>

CONTRIBUTORS

• Chase Whitener <[email protected]>

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2015 by Michiel Beijen <[email protected]>.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.