laravel-url-shortener

Powerful URL shortening tools in Laravel

• Installation
  • Requirements
  • Laravel 5.5+
  • Laravel 5.1-5.4
• Usage
  • Changing the driver
  • Adding your own drivers
• Available drivers
  • Bit.ly
  • Firebase Dynamic Links
  • Is.gd
  • Ouo.io
  • Polr
  • Shorte.st
  • TinyURL
  • V.gd
• Changelog
• Security
• Contributing
• Credits
• License

Installation

You can easily install this package using Composer, by running the following command:

composer require laracrafts/laravel-url-shortener

Requirements

This package has the following requirements:

• PHP 7.1 or higher
• Laravel 5.1 or higher

Laravel 5.5+

If you use Laravel 5.5 or higher, that’s it. You can now use the package, continue to the usage section.

Laravel 5.1-5.4

If you’re using an older version of Laravel, register the package’s service provider to your application. You can do
this by adding the following line to your config/app.php file:

'providers' => [
   ...
   LaraCraftsUrlShortenerUrlShortenerServiceProvider::class,
   ...
],

Usage

The shortener can be retrieved from the container in two ways:

$shortener = app('url.shortener');
// or...
$shortener = url()->shortener();

Once you have an instance of the shortener, you can shorten your URLs:

// This will return your shortened URL as a string
$shortener->shorten(...);

// This will return a promise which will resolve to your shortened URL
$shortener->shortenAsync(...);

// You can also call shortening from Laravel's url component directly
url()->shorten(...);

// or...
app('url')->shorten(...);

// or even...
app('url.shortener')->shorten(...);

This package relies on Guzzle’s promise library for its asynchronous shortening, read their
documentation for more information.
You can also use dependency injection to inject the shortener into a method:

class MyController extends Controller
{
    public function myFunction(ShortenerManager $shortener)
    {
        $shortener->shorten(...);
    }
}

The shortener exposes the following methods:

Method
Description

shorten
Shorten the given URL

shortenAsync
Shorten the given URL asynchronously

driver
Retrieve a driver (e.g. tiny_url)

extend
Register your own driver

Changing the driver

You can change the default driver by setting URL_SHORTENER_DRIVER={driver} in your environment file or publishing the
config file and changing it directly.

Adding your own drivers

Much like Laravel’s core components, you can add your
own drivers for this package. You can do this by adding the following code to a central place in your application
(preferably a service provider).

public function boot(ShortenerManager $shorteners)
{
    $shorteners->extend('my_driver', function ($app, $config) {
       // Return your driver instance here
    });
}

Once you have registered your driver you can call it like any other driver.
If you wrote a custom driver that others might find useful (such as a public online shortener service), please consider
adding it to the package via a pull request.

Available drivers

Below is a list of available drivers along with their individual specs:

Service
Driver name
Since version
Analytics
Monetization

Bit.ly
bit_ly
0.1.0
yes
no

Firebase Dynamic Links
firebase
0.2.0
yes
no

Is.gd
is_gd
0.2.0
yes
no

Ouo.io
ouo_io
0.2.0
yes
yes

Polr
polr
0.3.0
yes
no

Shorte.st
shorte_st
0.1.0
yes
yes

TinyURL
tiny_url
0.1.0
no
no

V.gd
is_gd
0.2.0
yes
no

Bit.ly

website
This driver runs on Bit.ly’s API and currently only supports API version 4. The API requires an access token and
currently only generic access tokens are supported. You can retrieve such tokens from your Bit.ly profile. If you have
a paid Bit.ly account you will also be able to set the domain for your shortened URLs.

Variable
Description

URL_SHORTENER_API_TOKEN
Your Bit.ly API token

URL_SHORTENER_PREFIX
Your short URL domain

Firebase Dynamic Links

website
This driver runs on Firebase’s API. The API requires an access token, a URI prefix and a suffix. You can access these
information on you firebase console. The token accessible under the project settings as “Web API Key” and the prefixes
can be defined and accessed under the Dynamic Links menu.
The suffix can have the value SHORT or UNGUESSABLE.

IMPORTANT! Links created via the API are not visible in the Firebase console. They are only accessible via
the Analytics REST API.

Variable
Description
Default

URL_SHORTENER_API_TOKEN
Your Firebase API token

URL_SHORTENER_PREFIX
Your URL prefix

URL_SHORTENER_STRATEGY
The path component creation method
UNGUESSABLE

Is.gd / V.gd

website
This driver supports is.gd and v.gd trough their respective APIs. When link previews
are enabled v.gd will be used, otherwise is.gd will be used.

Variable
Description

URL_SHORTENER_ANALYTICS
Enable or disable statistics

Ouo.io

website
This driver uses the Ouo.io API and requires an access token. The API allows for URL monetization via advertisements and
provides analytics via its dashboard.

Variable
Description

URL_SHORTENER_API_TOKEN
Your Ouo.io API token

Polr

website
This driver uses the Polr API. The API requires an access token and a URI prefix.

Variable
Description

URL_SHORTENER_API_TOKEN
Your Polr API token

URL_SHORTENER_PREFIX
Your URL prefix

Shorte.st

website
This driver uses the Shorte.st API, which requires an access token. This API supports monetization of your URLs and can
give you insight into your traffic via its dashboard.

Variable
Description

URL_SHORTENER_API_TOKEN
Your Shorte.st API token

TinyURL

website
This driver runs on the TinyURL API, which requires no additional setup. This driver is the package default.

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information what has been changed in recent versions.

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email one of the authors instead of using the issue tracker. You can
find the author emails in the composer.json.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Credits

• Choraimy Kroonstuiver
• László Görög
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.