Bitly API Shorten call..

[Rajesh Tambe]

Trying to test the Bitly Dot Net DLL using Powershell. I am loading the DLL successfully, but the call to Shorten fails. Error says "unable to extract errorCode". Where do I go from here.
Powershell code is below:

cls
$opsdir = "C:\Bitly\"
[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile($opsdir +"BitlyDotNET.dll")
$Bitly = New-Object BitlyDotNET.Implementations.BitlyService("x...@mycompany.com", "API Key I got")
[string]$ROutput = $Bitly.Shorten("http://cnn.com")

Thoughts?

[ja...@bit.ly]

It looks like the endpoint that DLL hits does still work, but the first argument to BitlyService should be your login, not your email address.

You can find the login on the settings page, just click on the "Show Legacy API Key" link.

Hope that helps,
James

[Rajesh Tambe]

James,
I decided to move away from using the DLL. Instead I am simply going to use HTTPS POSTS. I am successfully able to get a short Bitly URL. Is it possible to delete/remove/update this Short URL? My application requirement is that first I create a short bitly URL and then after pre-defined number of days, I need to expire/remove/delete this short URL. How can I do that?

Thanks

[James Socol]

Given how old that DLL is, I think that's for the best. The /v3/shorten endpoint should be fairly easy to use with the docs: http://dev.bitly.com/links.html#v3_shorten

Once a short URL has been created, there's no way to delete it. You could have your application respond to the long URL with a page informing users that the original page has expired.

James

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[Rajesh Tambe]

That's a bummer!!! So, there is no way to update the short URL either? I might be using the short URL to point to a video file, hence I can't put up a maintenance/redirect page.
Regards

[James Socol]

Nope. Bitly URLs are immutable. Is it possible to just respond with an 404 page?

[Rajesh Tambe]

I guess. I will have to conjure up something like that.
Thanks for all your help.