Gwibber

[wishlist] choice of URL shortening service

Bug #328972 reported by Dominic Evans
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Gwibber
Fix Released
Wishlist
Michele Azzolari

Bug Description

Created for ~fedmor from question 60861.

"I see that the very latest Bazaar revision let set an automated URL shortening system, but it doesn't allow to choose which one to use: http://is.gd/ creates 18-characters URIs, but – if I remember well – it doesn't make use of permanent redirection [301], while TinyURL does (although it outputs 25-characters ones). IMHO, it could be interesting to let the user choice which service to use for URL shortening — and I'm sure that TinyURL libraries are available for Ubuntu!"

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lp:~macno/gwibber/devel
Dominic Evans (community): Approve
lp:gwibber/1.2
Dominic Evans (oldmanuk)
description: updated
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Dominic Evans (oldmanuk) wrote :

assigning to ~macno at personal request on identi.ca

Changed in gwibber:
assignee: nobody → macno
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Confirmed
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Dominic Evans (oldmanuk) wrote :

suggest using this defect to add support for a few of the most popular services, since we are adding more, e.g., bit.ly, tinyurl, snip.url, tr.im

Michele Azzolari (macno)
Changed in gwibber:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Michele Azzolari (macno)
Changed in gwibber:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Ricardo Panaggio (panaggio) wrote :

Suggest adding support to another services, like migre.me, cli.gs, zi.ma and ad.vu.

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Michele Azzolari (macno) wrote :

By now, services supported are:

http://cli.gs
http://is.gd
http://tinyurl.com
http://tr.im
http://ur1.ca
http://zi.ma

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Andreas Schildbach (schildbach) wrote :

Additionally, I'd like to be able to switch off URL shortening completely.

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Dominic Evans (oldmanuk) wrote :

You already can, its in the preferences as a checkbox for "automatically shorten URLs"

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Phil Wilson (x-launchpad-philwilson-org) wrote :

re the supported services, rather than adding each one in turn to __init.py__ in /urlshorter why not just do "from . import *" ? This would mean you (or users) could just drop in new ones and have them work (ok, possibly needing a restart).

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

now in Gwibber we have the option to choose url shortening service

Changed in gwibber:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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