Heyo!
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Show quoted text> My friend Eric Hammond informed me about the Perl API you have done
> for our web service. I just thought I'd drop a quick note to say
> thank you!
Not a problem =) Just trying to have an API for all the ones I can find.
Show quoted text> Please let me know if you have any code samples that I can put up on
> our website.
Nominally, the summary section of the documentation providse some
sample code, just not necessarily anything practical beyond using
the module and getting a snipped URL.
However, I'll have 1.5 provide some scripts for doing some things.
I'm thinking: parse a clean email and turn URLs into shorter links,
or a command line program to take a URL and email it to someone as a
short link.
Any suggestions?
Show quoted text> PPM (2.1.5) on my Windows box refuses to install the module.
> Thanks for any help.
Hmm. I don't run Windows myself so I can only provide indirect
assistance here. Does it give any errors?
Show quoted text> I have a couple of requests.
>
> 1. Could you please change the text in the description:
> [from this] to [that].
Done.
Show quoted text> 2. You will notice that SnipURL has a few more functions than others.
> We have nicknames, private URLs which are not painfully dependent
> on a password per URL etc.
Show quoted text> Also, if a URL is spam-protected
> (e.g.,
http://snipurl.com/th) then it would be useful to make
> it to return a "Spam" identifier, not undef.
Hmm. I'd like it to still return undef, however I may make an error
variable accessible. I'll think about it more as I examine the pros
and cons.
Show quoted text> I know it is too much for me to expect you to make these additions,
Not at all. The aim is to be able to access most of the features for
creating a URL from the module, so if that means adding support for
login, then so be it =)
Show quoted text> but I would be happy to discuss them with you if you are interested.
I'll add more to this ticket if I have questions. The system should
email you anything I put in here.
The only thing I'd imagine wanting, for convenience rather than anything
else, is what TinyURL has and NotLong shall have soon. And that's a
interface geared for a program, i.e. no stylistic HTML for users, just
simple text or similar for a program to handle so it doesn't have to
work out where the data it wants is on the page.
But it's not necessary, so don't worry about it unless you want to =)
Show quoted text> Thank you very much in advance!
=)
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Most kind of you =) Could you make my name a link to
http://eh.org/~koschei/
I think that's the real reason I do this sort of module: recognition =)
Anyway, I could not have done it without the service itself =)
1.4.2 will appear on CPAN soon (48 hours) with the revised description.
Or grab the tar.gz from
http://perl.dellah.org/ - I don't know what to
do with PPM packges.
1.5 will happen a bit later (sometime next week).
Thanks for the advice. It's good to get feedback.
cheers,
--
Iain.
