Hi, Bob-

The above example should still work, yes. Can you verify once that you're
using the exact login and API key values shown at
http://bitly.com/a/your_api_key? We'll work on making the documentation
clearer for endpoints that still support API key authentication, sorry for
the confusion.

Thanks, and all the best,
Matt
On Jul 25, 2012 2:23 PM, "Bob S" <bsabis...@gmail.com> wrote:

When I go to that link, I see the correct API key, but it says my user name
is 'o_7h2i2h3nat'.

It should be 'voxelapp'.  What am I doing wrong?

Thanks
Bob

Hi, Bob-

The 'o_7h2i2h3nat' value is actually the one you should use to call the
API; it is an opaque, unique identifier that is generated when you create
an account via Facebook or Twitter. "@voxelapp" is your display name, which
you should see consistently in the bitly visual interface.

We're going to update the dev site next week to make this clearer; you
aren't doing anything wrong!

Thanks, and all the best,
Matt

OK -- but where did you get that link from?  In other words, how do I find
that name when I am logged into my account?  I don't see it anywhere, and I
would not have known about
 http://bitly.com/a/your_api_key without posting a question here to these
groups.  

Thanks
Bob

Hi, Bob-

http://bitly.com/a/your_api_key was linked from the very bottom of the
"authentication" page, but it was way hard to find, and not directly linked
to from the /v3/shorten API endpoint documentation. We updated the
documentation this morning to make this clearer:

http://dev.bitly.com/links.html#v3_shorten

Thanks again for your feedback here, this was really helpful!

All the best,
Matt