Comments on: AS3 & bit.ly the URL shortener

By: admin

admin — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:31:45 +0000

Hi James,
Are you getting back a valid shorten URL from Bitly? Add a trace statement in the Bitly class in the handleBitlyComplete method, to make sure you are getting a response from the Bitly server. ALSO, flash will not allow you to spawn a URL call with out an explicit button press.

Manuel

By: James

James — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:31:27 +0000

This is awesome. I’m having a little problem though. I have a button that i’m setting up so that when clicked, it navigates to the following url : http://twitter.com/home?status= and within the status query, it should have the short url. My button click function looks like this:

_bitly.shortenUrl(http://www.url_i_wanna_shorten.com);
_bitly.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, bitlyCompleteHandeler,false, 0, true);

then in my bitlyCompleteHandeler function i have:

_bitly.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,bitlyCompleteHandeler);
_shortUrl = _bitly.shortUrl;

bitlyUrlRequest = new URLRequest(“http://twitter.com/home?status=” + _shortUrl);
navigateToURL(bitlyUrlRequest, “_blank”);

I don’t even make it to the bitlyCompleteHandeler function so i don’t even know if the code there works. Any ideas on what I’m doing wrong?

By: gemBONG

gemBONG — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 02:48:13 +0000

I didn’t know how i found you site. But swear, I’m so using your Bitly class. Thank you berymuch.

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By: Henrik

Henrik — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:25:41 +0000

Great writeup, I’m going to use your bit.ly and serialization classes and wrap my own design around the functionality. Worked a treat!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 20 May 2010 04:59:04 +0000

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