bitly

node-bitly - Bitly API for nodejs

This module provides calls to the Bitly API for Nodejs. For more information on the API request and responses visit the Bitly API docs

node-bitly is programmed with ES7 async/await but uses the typescript compiler to ES5, so the library has been tested back to support node v4.8.4

Installation

To install via NPM type the following: npm install bitly

You can also install via git by cloning: git clone https://github.com/tanepiper/node-bitly.git /path/to/bitly

Usage

This library uses the API provided by bitly and requires an OAuth token to use. To get your access token, visit OAuth Apps (under Generic Access Token)

See http://dev.bitly.com for format of returned objects from the API

To see the available libary APIs, you can view the API Documentation

Code

const BitlyClient = require('bitly');
const bitly = BitleyClient('<accessToken>');

try {
  return await bitly.shorten(uri);
} catch(e) {
  throw e;
}

If you are not using node 8 then you can still use the library with Promise values:

const BitlyClient = require('bitly');
const bitly = BitleyClient('<accessToken>');

bitly.shorten('https://github.com/tanepiper/node-bitly')
.then(function(result) {
  console.log(result);
})
.catch(function(error) {
  console.error(error);
});

You can also do raw requests to any Bitly endpoint. With this you need to pass the access token to the method

const BitlyClient = require('bitly');
const bitly = BitleyClient('<accessToken>');

try {
  return await bitly.bitlyRequest('link/referrers_by_domain', {
    link: 'https://github.com/tanepiper/node-bitly,
    unit: 'hour',
    timezone: 'Europe/Amsterdam'
  });
} catch(e) {
  throw e;
}

Tests

To run tests type npm test.