Exbitly

An Elixir library to interact with the Bitly API.

Installation

To use Exbitly, you first have to add it to your mix.exs dependencies.

defp deps do
  [
    {:exbitly, "~> 0.1.0"}
  ]
end

After that, you have to create a config folder and a config.exs file inside that folder. Then, pass the code below inside the config.exs file and add your token in it.

import Config

config :exbitly,
  token: ""

Without the config.exs file, you won't be able to shorten URLs.

Usage

You can use shorten/2 to shorten a URL.

Exbitly.shorten("bit.ly", "https://www.example.com")
# {:ok, "http://bit.ly/short_url"}

Exbitly.shorten("random", "https://www.example.com")
# {:error, %{
#   "description" => "The value provided is invalid.",
#   "errors" => [%{"error_code" => "invalid", "field" => "domain"}],
#   "message" => "INVALID_ARG_DOMAIN",
#   "resource" => "bitlinks"
# }}

If you prefer exceptions, you can always use shorten!/2 instead of shorten/2.

Exbitly.shorten!("bit.ly", "https://www.example.com")
# {:ok, "http://bit.ly/short_url"}

Exbitly.shorten!("random", "https://www.example.com")
# ** (Exbitly.Error) An error occured while shortening the URL. Message: INVALID_ARG_DOMAIN - Description: The value provided is invalid.

License

Copyright (c) 2022-present Alim Arslan Kaya.

Exbitly is licensed under the MIT license.