bitlyapi

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

Installation

To install via NPM type the following: npm install bitlyapi

You can also install via git by cloning: git clone https://github.com/kishanmadhesiya/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 https://bitly.com/a/oauth_apps (under Generic Access Token)

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

Code

// For ES2015/ES6

import Bitly from 'bitlyapi';

let bitly = new Bitly('<YOUR ACCESS TOKEN>');

bitly.shorten('http://nodejs.org', (response) => {
  console.log(response);
}, (error) => {
  console.log(error);
});


// For ES5

var Bitly = require('bitlyapi');
var bitly = new Bitly('<YOUR ACCESS TOKEN>');

bitly.shorten('https://github.com/kishanmadhesiya/bitly')
  .then(function(response) {
    var short_url = response.data.url
    // Do something with data
  }, function(error) {
    throw error;
  });

Tests

To run tests type npm test. For coverage type npm run coverage

Bit.ly Features

This module is limited to the following API methods:

• shorten
• expand
• clicks / clicks_by_minute / clicks_by_day
• referrers
• countries
• bitly_pro_domain
• lookup
• info
• history
• link_edit

This is updated version of https://www.npmjs.com/package/bitly