#!/usr/bin/perl # Version 1.0 # written by modulus schmodulus # 06/07/06 use strict; my $no_tinyurl; #my $target_url = $ARGV[0]; BEGIN { eval qq{ use LWP::UserAgent; use HTTP::Request::Common qw(POST GET); }; $no_tinyurl++ if($@); } sub tinyurl { my $url = $_[0]; my $newurl; my $Converter = 'http://tinyurl.com/create.php'; my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent; $ua->agent("Mozilla/4.5 " . $ua->agent); # we are ie haters. $ua->timeout(10); return "tinyurl.pl: not configured. needs LWP::UserAgent and HTTP::Request::Common" if( $no_tinyurl ); my $req = POST $Converter, [ name => 'f', url => $url, submit => 'Make TinyURL!', ]; my $res = $ua->request($req); # Submit request if ($res->is_success) { # Went through ok my $html = $res->as_string; # the line that i need to parse for the tinyurl: #
http://tinyurl.com/6b5mif ($html =~ /\[/ ){ $newurl = $1; } } else { $newurl = "Oops. Something borked while trying to connect to http://www.tinyurl.com"; } return $newurl; } 1;