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A small library providing utility methods to shorten
and unshorten
URLs using http://gimb.us/'s API.
npm install gimbus --save
var gimbus = require('gimbus');
var url = "http://ashley.re";
gimbus.shorten(url); // if no callback is specified, it'll use console.log as a callback
gimbus.shorten(url,function(short_url) {
console.log("Shortened URL is:",short_url);
gimbus.unshorten(short_url,function(url) {
console.log(short_url,"points to",url);
})
});
~$ node test.js
http://gimb.us/VHCL1
Shortened URL is: http://gimb.us/VHCL1
http://gimb.us/VHCL1 points to http://ashley.re
npm test
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FAQs
Node.js API for gimb.us (http://gimb.us) URL shortener.
We found that gimbus demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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