BudURL

About

This gem provides a simple interface to the BudURL.Pro API, documented here. BudURL provides URL shortening services as well as analytics, some of which is available externally. In particular, the API allows:

• Shortening URLs along with adding notes, setting redirect types, and checking for duplicates,
• Expanding URLs which have been shortened using the service,
• Gathering analytics such as click counts either since link creation or on a day-by-day basis, filterable by time period.

Usage

The BudURL API requires an API key for any usage other than URL expansion. More details at their website, BudURL.Pro.

Initialise a client using Budurl.new(<API_KEY>). It provides shorten(url, opts) and expand(short_url) functionality; the resulting Budurl::Url objects can be used to acquire additional information such as click counts. Options not exposed in code can be passed in as options; generally speaking, any option available through the API should be accessible.