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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Using CURL in a script Post 302620873 by subway69 on Monday 9th of April 2012 12:04:15 PM
Old 04-09-2012
Using CURL in a script
Hi all

so I'm new to scripting but I am making a script that is a url shortener. It will take a url off the command line and spit back the shortened version using bit.ly's api

this is what I have so far

Code:
if [ $# -lt 1 ]
then
        echo "You must supply a URL."
        exit 1
fi

read url
curl "https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v3/shorten?access_token=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&longUrl=$url"

curl -d

I am not entirely sure if I am using this correctly. I know curl will fetch the direct URL for the conversion but I dont know if it is legal to stuff '$url' directly into the http address. Curl -d will post the data but I'm a bit confused as to what URL I'm supposed to use there. . .

basically what i want to do is fetch the url off the command line and stuff it into that http address after '&longURL=' where the url is supposed to be. Then I need to fetch back the shortened version of the address.

this is the api
ApiDocumentation - bitly-api - bitly REST API method documentation - API Libraries and Documentation for bitly - Google Project Hosting
and this is the page ive been reading regarding curl
cURL - Tutorial

I believe curl -d will post data granted I provide the information after it to post it but I dont know what should go after curl -d. .I am new to using APIs and im just picking this up

any help is appreciated thank you
 

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curl_easy_escape

curl_easy_escape(3)						  libcurl Manual					       curl_easy_escape(3)

NAME

       curl_easy_escape - URL encodes the given string

SYNOPSIS

       #include <curl/curl.h>

       char *curl_easy_escape( CURL *curl, char *url, int length );

DESCRIPTION

       This  function  converts  the  given input string to an URL encoded string and returns that as a new allocated string. All input characters
       that are not a-z, A-Z, 0-9, '-', '.', '_' or '~' are converted to their "URL escaped" version (%NN where NN is a two-digit hexadecimal num-
       ber).

       If the length argument is set to 0 (zero), curl_easy_escape(3) uses strlen() on the input url to find out the size.

       You must curl_free(3) the returned string when you're done with it.

AVAILABILITY

       Added in 7.15.4 and replaces the old curl_escape(3) function.

RETURN VALUE

       A pointer to a zero terminated string or NULL if it failed.

SEE ALSO

       curl_easy_unescape(3), curl_free(3), RFC2396

libcurl 7.15.4							   7 April 2006 					       curl_easy_escape(3)
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