NAME

WWW::Shorten::Digg - Perl interface to digg.com

SYNOPSIS

  use WWW::Shorten::Digg;
  use WWW::Shorten 'Digg';

  $short_url = makeashorterlink($long_url);

  $long_url  = makealongerlink($short_url);

DESCRIPTION

A Perl interface to the web site digg.com. Digg maintains a database of long URLs, each of which has a unique identifier.

Functions

makeashorterlink

The function makeashorterlink will call the Digg web site passing it your long URL and will return the shorter Digg version.

makealongerlink

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

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

EXPORT

makeashorterlink, makealongerlink

SUPPORT, LICENCE, THANKS and SUCH

See the main WWW::Shorten docs.

AUTHOR

Martin Broerse <broerse@martinic.com>

SEE ALSO

WWW::Shorten, perl, http://apidoc.digg.com/ShortURLs

COPYRIGHT

© Martinic 2009. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

For more information on Martinic visit http://www.martinic.com/.