URL shortening with bit.ly in Scala

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Short URL’s are becoming the need of most of the application. We’ve used the bit.ly for the URL shortening in our application. Just a little bit work to do for achieving the URL shortening with bit.ly. Here are the steps to do that :

You should have the following credentials in order to call the bit.ly API.

i. apiKey : You’d get it on registering with bit.ly.
ii. login : Your bit.ly log-in name .

Now i think we’ve enough credentials. Lets prepare a Scala utility to achieve the short URL from bit.ly for the long one that we’ll provide to it.

The Scala utility object

object bitlyURLShortening extends App {

  // URL to be shortened
  val longUrl = "http://neelkanthsachdeva.wordpress.com/"

  // URL shortner utility method
  def returnShortUrlViabitly(longUrl: String) {

    //apiKey & login of a user
    val apiKey = "********************"
    val login = "********************"

    // API method call
    val bitlyURL = "https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v3/shorten"

    // Building the request (Choose your own way in order to make it)
    val promise = WS.url(bitlyURL).setQueryParameter("apiKey", apiKey).
      setQueryParameter("login", login).setQueryParameter("longUrl", longUrl).get

    /*
     *   extracting out the JSON from bit.ly containing
          the short url
     */

    val shortUrlJson = promise.get.asJson.toString
    println("Here is the JSON containing short URL : " + shortUrlJson)
  }

  returnShortUrlViabitly(longUrl)

}

Output would look like this:

Here is the JSON containing short URL :

 {"status_code":200,"status_txt":"OK","data":{"long_url":"http://neelkanthsachdeva.wordpress.com/","url":"http://bit.ly/OdYBQW",
"hash":"OdYBQW","global_hash":"OdYBQX","new_hash":0}}