Re: Dynamic URL shortening
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Littlefield, Tyler wrote: > Hello all: > I started working on a project with someone else quite recently, and he has > a request. The project requires an URL shortener, and he would like it to be > dynamic for both users and developers. Apparently some applications on the > mac allow for the user to input some data on a URL shortener and use that > specific service to shorten URLS. So I'm curious if anyone has had any > experience with this in python/can recommend a library to look at. In my MUD client, RosMud, there's a URL shortener that's designed for people playing a text RPG. The client itself isn't open source (but is free to download), but the URL shortener is. It's all written in C++, so it may not be of much use to you, but feel free to grab it from my rather ugly web site: http://www.kepl.com.au/esstu/rosmud.html The code is Windows-specific, but the TinyURL code is mostly just network work, so by the time you've ported it to Python it will be cross-platform. Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Dynamic URL shortening
Hello all:
I started working on a project with someone else quite recently, and he
has a request. The project requires an URL shortener, and he would like
it to be dynamic for both users and developers. Apparently some
applications on the mac allow for the user to input some data on a URL
shortener and use that specific service to shorten URLS. So I'm curious
if anyone has had any experience with this in python/can recommend a
library to look at.
Secondly, my requirement to make this dynamic for developers. The way I
did this was to use a metaclass that the base URLShortener will inherit,
which will add itself to a shortener registry. This works well enough,
and all I really need to do is something like:
shortener = factory.getShortener("bitly")
url = shortener.shorten("http://google.com";)
How viable is this solution? It seems like it's nice enough, are there
other approaches to handling something like this?
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