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A comment on the idea "I'd love to see support for ow.ly." in Statiksoft, LLC:

How can you get the title from a HEAD request? Doesn't it just return the HTTP headers, which don't include the <title>?</title> – zzzrByte, on May 09, 2009 03:15

zzzrByte replied on May 07, 2009 23:12 to the idea "I'd love to see support for ow.ly." in Statiksoft, LLC:

It seems like some ow.ly urls aren't returning a title:
http://api.longurl.org/v1/expand?url=...

zzzrByte marked one of Sean Murphy's replies in Statiksoft, LLC as useful. Sean Murphy replied to the problem "Problem with short url that leads to feedproxy.google.com".

zzzrByte shared an idea in Statiksoft, LLC on May 07, 2009 21:59:

Return appropriate titles for links that don't lead to html content

When exploring a link, if it returns a content type that isn't text/html return the content type instead of a title.

I implemented something similar in my code using curl_getinfo($this->var, CURLINFO_CONTENT_TYPE); Then if it's text/html I get the title... and if it's something like PDF or MP3 I can return something like PDF document or Audio File.

zzzrByte replied on May 07, 2009 21:54 to the idea "Allow sending multiple urls to API" in Statiksoft, LLC:

Just to share my experience. I ended up developing a script that takes all the links I need to go over and create individual processes for digging each (just like in the code sample above) and it works great!

My script scans about 300 links at a time, and it finishes in about 20-30 seconds! An amazing improvement. (of course on a production machine, it really slows it down when doing something like that... I'm considering AWS for it).

My code is based on the link above, but if you'd like to see my code, I'd be happy to share it.

zzzrByte replied on April 29, 2009 16:22 to the problem "Problem with short url that leads to feedproxy.google.com" in Statiksoft, LLC:

Ahhh, democracy in action... inspiring!

zzzrByte replied on April 29, 2009 16:14 to the idea "Allow sending multiple urls to API" in Statiksoft, LLC:

...or, how about this?

Since we're talking about a process that isn't very cpu intensive, and instead is mostly about waiting idly for a reply from the other server. You might just open multiple urls in different processes (from one script) and than parse results for all of them.

So the script running would do something like that:
1. Call http://bit.ly/ra525 in process 1
2. Call http://digg.com/u119Y in process 2
3. Call http://tinyurl.com/corl9d in process 3
4. iterate over all three processes getting and parsing results.
5. return results.

So if process 1 would take 3 seconds, process 2 would take 2 seconds, and process 3 takes 3 seconds... The whole script would take 3 seconds and not 8.

Here's some sample PHP code I just Googled:
http://www.pyrosoft.co.uk/blog/2007/1...

zzzrByte replied on April 29, 2009 15:55 to the problem "Problem with short url that leads to feedproxy.google.com" in Statiksoft, LLC:

Right now I am taking your services list and adding a few others to it (such as feedproxy.google.com) and then sending it to the API... And if I don't get a title... I curl it myself, following all redirects. The results seem much better this way than what the API returns... So yeah... I think that would be a great improvement.

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zzzrByte shared an idea in Statiksoft, LLC on April 23, 2009 05:15:

Add support for tcrn.ch

Please add it to the services list.
It's Techcrunch's own shortener and is already gaining popularity.
e.g. http://api.longurl.org/v1/expand?url=...

zzzrByte reported a problem in Statiksoft, LLC on April 23, 2009 00:51:

Problem with short url that leads to feedproxy.google.com

This url returned a bad result:
http://api.longurl.org/v1/expand?url=...

It reports back saying that the long url is "http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/k52BBJinAbA/"

If I then call the api with that url (http://api.longurl.org/v1/expand?url=...) I get back the real final url in the response (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/22/...)

Something here is very odd because even in the first response I got, I got the feedproxy.google.com url but I got the real title of the page returned by the next api query (techcrunch.com).

Is longurl recursive? (it should be)
That is, if the long url is found to be another short url, will it follow that redirect and return the end result?

I hope I didn't make a mess trying to explain this issue... Let me know if I need to be clearer on something.

P.S. - Why not add feedproxy.google.com to the services list? It may not be very short... but it operates just like a shortener, and longurl already works with it correctly.

zzzrByte marked one of Sean Murphy's replies in Statiksoft, LLC as useful. Sean Murphy replied to the problem "500 error returned when trying to lengthen some urls".

zzzrByte shared an idea in Statiksoft, LLC on April 21, 2009 23:59:

Allow sending multiple urls to API

It would cut a lot of bandwidth and other costs of making calls to the API (for you and the API users) if you allowed calls to the API to inquire about more than one url per call.

The guys from "Long URL Please" have implemented a feature like that by allowing more than one q parameter in their querystring, for example:
http://www.longurlplease.com/api/v1.1...

I would love to do a:
http://api.longurl.org/v1/expand?url=...

zzzrByte shared an idea in Statiksoft, LLC on April 21, 2009 23:52:

I'd love to see support for ow.ly.

I'd love to see support for ow.ly
e.g. http://api.longurl.org/v1/expand?url=...

zzzrByte replied on April 21, 2009 22:20 to the problem "500 error returned when trying to lengthen some urls" in Statiksoft, LLC:

Also found problems with:
http://api.longurl.org/v1/expand?url=...
http://api.longurl.org/v1/expand?url=...

The first leads to a PDF, the second to an MP4... This bug is becoming clearer by the moment.

zzzrByte reported a problem in Statiksoft, LLC on April 21, 2009 16:07:

500 error returned when trying to lengthen some urls

API breaks on the following url:
http://api.longurl.org/v1/expand?url=... (short url links to an mp3)

zzzrByte shared an idea in Topify on March 06, 2009 20:20:

Make new follower email include user's last ~15 twits

I think the New follower message should include more than just the last twit from that user.

When I get a new follower I like to go over his last 10-20 twits and decide if I want to follow him or not based on this. Just seeing one last twit doesn't let me make that decision and I still have to click through from the message to his profile.

zzzrByte replied on May 29, 2008 07:36 to the idea "A smarter "assign to"" in DeskAway Project Collaboration:

Cool, works great!

zzzrByte replied on May 29, 2008 07:35 to the idea "Highlight tasks that have a description" in DeskAway Project Collaboration:

Looks great, thanks!