Saturday, July 12, 2008

What a Web Service Should Be - Bit.ly

http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/BitDOTly_Is_a_Big_Deal_URL_Shortener

http://bit.ly/docs

This is exactly what I have been talking about for years! The programmatic web. Send a get, get some data. No need to make it so complicated. This is a perfect example.

I send the url of my last post:

http://bit.ly/api?url=http://iponderus.com/2008/07/problems-with-ie7-on-apple-mobileme.html

I get back nothing but: http://bit.ly/1cyP69 in plain text!

I send the shortened version:
http://bit.ly/resolve?url=http://bit.ly/1cyP69
I get back my original url in plain text!

Plus you can get stats in xml or json:
http://bit.ly/feed.php?url=http://bit.ly/1cyP69
http://bit.ly/feed?url=http://bit.ly/1cyP69&format=json

Bravo!!!

1 comment:

Adit said...

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