[Tutorial] How to Make Your Own Mass URL Shortener

fuskaren said:

This is awesome! How could you make money out of it?

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tacopalypse said:

comparco said:

Clever stuff many thanks tacopalypse.
Could this be then used as a public service like the others with ads on the site?
or would that "overheat" your hosting account?

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the link looks sketchy as all hell xD

but imo, bitly links and any url shortener links look pretty sketchy to begin with.
the intention that you're hiding the destination url is pretty obvious either way.

best way to make your links 'friendly looking' is to buy a dedicated domain for it and bounce redirects off of that, but that can get expensive

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fatboy said:

Ah okay, didn't take as long as I thought.
The files I have created are the very basics - you will need a bit of error checking on them but the scripts work! You can probably tidy the code up to be easier (probably a config file with the common things in)

Grab them from

Code:

hxxp://fatboy.me.uk/bhw/short.tar

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<?php 
$list = file_get_contents("list.txt"); 
$urls= explode ("\n",$list) ; 
foreach ($urls as $array) {
$d = fopen ("hxxp://YOUROWNDOMAIN/create.php?url=".$array,"r");
fclose ($d);
}
?>

<?PHP 
$folder = "folder/"; 
$handle = opendir($folder); 

# Making an array containing the files in the current directory: 
while ($file = readdir($handle)) 
{ 
    $files[] = $file; 
} 
closedir($handle); 

#echo the files 
foreach ($files as $file) { 
    echo "hxxp://YOURDOMAINURL/".$file."<br />"; 
} 
?>

gregzkij said:

Made a quick edit to be able to bulkupload and get a list with the URLs. I am in no way a coder, just a brainiac.

#1 Create a new phpfile in the root. I called mine bulk.php. Edit YOUROWNDOMAIN to, well, your own url where the script is located.

Code:

<?php 
$list = file_get_contents("list.txt"); 
$urls= explode ("\n",$list) ; 
foreach ($urls as $array) {
$d = fopen ("hxxp://YOUROWNDOMAIN/create.php?url=".$array,"r");
fclose ($d);
}
?>

#2 Upload your list of websites you want to have shortened. Put them in list.txt with the script. Use regular hxxp://url formatting. One per line!

#3 Now run the script bulk.php by just visiting the adress where you uploaded it.

#4 Bonus - extract the shortened URL list! Upload the following and put it into list.php or whatever. Change "folder/" to whatever location you're storing the shortened linkfiles in. Also change YOURDOMAINURL to the actual URL used for the shortened links. What I mean is if you've installed the site in the root of the domain - then just use the domain. If you have any subfolders going on, just point it to domain/folder

Code:

<?PHP 
$folder = "folder/"; 
$handle = opendir($folder); 

# Making an array containing the files in the current directory: 
while ($file = readdir($handle)) 
{ 
    $files[] = $file; 
} 
closedir($handle); 

#echo the files 
foreach ($files as $file) { 
    echo "hxxp://YOURDOMAINURL/".$file."<br />"; 
} 
?>

You should now have Bulk.php (importer) / List.php (show the shortened urls) and List.txt (your long urls you want converted). Hopefully it will help you some when generating shortened urls from sitemaps, feeds or whatever you have in mind.

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