/iphone-bitly

iPhone bit.ly API

Primary LanguageObjective-C

iPhone API for Bit.ly

Version 1.0 — Open Source (Apache License)

By Stefan Arentz, May 6th, 2010

Introduction

This is a simple Objective-C API for the http://bit.ly service. Although the bit.ly API is capable of more tricks, this code currently only supports the shortening of URLs.

The API is fully asynchronous and can be easily embedded in any project. There are no dependencies on other libraries.

Requirements

The code has been developed and tested for iPhone OS 3.0 and higher. It does not use anything specific to 3.0 so it should also work on 2.2.1.

Example Usage

/**
 * Create a URLShortener instance. Configure it and then execute it. The instance is auto released. It will
 * be cleaned up automatically when one of the delegate methods has been called. If you want to keep it
 * around then simply retain it and keep it around in an instance variable.
 *
 * Replace the login and key with your own.
 */

- (void) demo
{
   URLShortener* shortener = [[URLShortener new] autorelease];
   if (shortener != nil) {
      shortener.delegate = self;
      shortener.login = @"LOGIN-REPLACE-ME";
      shortener.key = @"KEY-REPLACE-ME";
      shortener.url = [NSURL URLWithString: @"http://stefan.arentz.ca"];
      [shortener execute];
   }
}

/**
 * URLShortener delegate method that will be called when the URL was succesfully shortened.
 */

- (void) shortener: (URLShortener*) shortener didSucceedWithShortenedURL: (NSURL*) shortenedURL
{
   NSLog(@"shortener: %@ didSucceedWithShortenedURL: %@", self, [shortenedURL absoluteString]);
}

/**
 * URLShortener delegate method that will be called when the bit.ly service returned a non-200
 * status code to our request.
 */

- (void) shortener: (URLShortener*) shortener didFailWithStatusCode: (int) statusCode
{
   NSLog(@"shortener: %@ didFailWithStatusCode: %d", self, statusCode);
}

/**
 * URLShortener delegate method that will be called when a lower level error has occurred. Like
 * network timeouts or host lookup failures.
 */

- (void) shortener: (URLShortener*) shortener didFailWithError: (NSError*) error
{
   NSLog(@"shortener: %@ didFailWithError: %d", self, [error localizedDescription]);
}