Using tinyurl.com in a .Net application ... possible?
You should probably add some error checking, etc, but this is probably the easiest way to do it:
System.Uri address = new System.Uri("http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=" + YOUR ADDRESS GOES HERE);
System.Net.WebClient client = new System.Net.WebClient();
string tinyUrl = client.DownloadString(address);
Console.WriteLine(tinyUrl);
After doing some more research ... I stumbled upon the following code:
public static string MakeTinyUrl(string url)
{
try
{
if (url.Length <= 30)
{
return url;
}
if (!url.ToLower().StartsWith("http") && !Url.ToLower().StartsWith("ftp"))
{
url = "http://" + url;
}
var request = WebRequest.Create("http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=" + url);
var res = request.GetResponse();
string text;
using (var reader = new StreamReader(res.GetResponseStream()))
{
text = reader.ReadToEnd();
}
return text;
}
catch (Exception)
{
return url;
}
}
Looks like it may do the trick.