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Using Google Docs to create short URLs

With spreadsheet (Google Docs) can perform very useful things to import data from web sites to our online documents. For example, we can use to manipulate RSS importFeeds function in Google Docs or function ImportHtml to help retrieve information from a website Docs.

With the following we show ver como utilizar Google Spreadsheet (el Excel de google) para convertir direcciones web en URLs cortas al vuelo. Podemos crear una copia de este spreadsheet en nuestra propia cuenta para ingresar nuevas datos o modificar los existentes.

Esta spredsheet, escrita por los desarrolladores de bit.ly , hace una llamada a la API de bit.ly al momento de ingresar la URL y muestra la respuesta que da la API (URL corta) en la otra columna. Internamente, usa la función importData la cual es usada normalmente para mostrar datos CSV en Google Docs.

Celda A1 (campo a llenar): El usuario ingresa una URL
Celda B1 (resultado) =importData(concatenate("http://api.bit.ly/shorten?longUrl=",A1)) TinyURL
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Bit.ly TinyURL.com was initially URL shortening service more popular on the web, but this has changed rapidly since the service has not made any updates in recent years. On the other hand, bit.ly provides statistics (so we can tracker clicks) provides an API and users can create their own accounts (see example) to keep track of your links shorter.

Talves this explains because Twitter has decided to change TinyURL, and as a result, bit.ly has recently eclipsed and now is the service most often used to shorten URLs for Twitter, according to statistics released by Twettmeme .

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