philnash/bitly

🗜 A Ruby wrapper for the bit.ly API

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bitly's Issues

Undefined method "use_api_version_3" for Bitly:Module

After upgrading the rails to 5 and ruby to 2.5 I started to receive this error,
/config/initializers/bitly.rb:1:in <top (required)>: undefined method "use_api_version_3" for Bitly:Module (NoMethodError)
any idea how to fix this issue ?

this is how the initializer file config/initializers/bitly.rb looks like

Bitly.use_api_version_3

Bitly.configure do |config|
  config.api_version = 3
  config.access_token = Rails.application.secrets["bitly"]["access_token"]
end

Test passing without actually testing outcome

https://github.com/philnash/bitly/blob/master/test/bitly/test_client.rb#L23

assert_equal login, login should be...
assert_equal login, b.login

Add support for v3 info endpoint

http://code.google.com/p/bitly-api/wiki/ApiDocumentation#/v3/info

The oauth2 < 0.9 limit may be outdated

The oauth2 gem is (at the time of writing) at version 0.9.1, and version 0.9.0 was the first to officially support Ruby 2. Is there a known reason to limit the oauth2 dependency to < 0.9 now? The limit in the gemspec was set before oauth2 0.9.0 came out.

404 Not found while executing client.expand

Following the README when I try to client.expand I get a 404.

This is my code:

require 'bitly'
token = '«myTokenHere»'
client = Bitly::API::Client.new(token: token)
bitlink = client.expand(bitlink: "https://bit.ly/«myShortCode»")
p bitlink.long_url

This is my env:

$ ruby -v
ruby 2.7.1p83 (2020-03-31 revision a0c7c23c9c) [x86_64-linux]

$ gem list | grep bitly
bitly (2.0.1)

This is the pry-ed output ( :

$ ruby bitly.rb

From: /home/luilver/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.7.1/gems/bitly-2.0.1/lib/bitly/api/client.rb:58 Bitly::API::Client#request:

    52: def request(path:, method: 'GET', params: {}, headers: {})
    53:   params = params.select { |k,v| !v.nil? }
    54:   headers = default_headers.merge(headers)
    55:   uri = Bitly::API::BASE_URL.dup
    56:   uri.path += path
    57:   request = Bitly::HTTP::Request.new(uri: uri, method: method, params: params, headers: headers)
 => 58:   binding.pry
    59:   @http.request(request)
    60: end

[1] pry(#<Bitly::API::Client>)> @http.request(request)
Bitly::Error: [404] NOT_FOUND
from /home/luilver/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.7.1/gems/bitly-2.0.1/lib/bitly/http/client.rb:28:in `request'
[2] pry(#<Bitly::API::Client>)> uri
=> #<URI::HTTPS https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v4/expand>
[3] pry(#<Bitly::API::Client>)>

authentication using oauth code

How can I make api requests using code received from bitly oauth api?

Also, I tried to use oauth class form bitly gem, but I have got an error:

undefined method `web_server' for #<OAuth2::Client:0x10f6ad280>

@bitly = Bitly::V3::OAuth.new client_id, client_secret
@bitly.authorize_url(some_url)

Invalid utf-8 in lib/bitly/v3/user.rb

Installing ri documentation for bitly-0.8.1...
unable to convert "\xE2" to UTF-8 in conversion from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 to US-ASCII for lib/bitly/v3/user.rb, skipping

I can create a pull request for this if wanted.

Add support for new lookup API

http://code.google.com/p/bitly-api/wiki/ApiDocumentation#/v3/lookup

Modernise and rewrite this entire library

This gem was written such a long time ago. It's more than time for an update. And I don't just mean deprecate the (surely by now) long gone v2 API.

I am adding this issue as a commitment that I am going to rewrite this gem from scratch. It's going to be more consistent, more up to date and just generally better all round. All you Bitly API calling dreams will come true.

no such fire to load -- oauth2

After installing the gem I am getting errors.

jdms-mm:dev User$ ruby script/server
=> Booting WEBrick
=> Rails 2.3.8 application starting on http://0.0.0.0:3000
no such file to load -- oauth2
/Users/jdm/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p352/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:32:in gem_original_require' /Users/jdm/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p352/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:32:inrequire'
/Users/jdm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352@r238/gems/activesupport-2.3.8/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:156:in require' /Users/jdm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352@r238/gems/activesupport-2.3.8/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:521:innew_constants_in'
/Users/jdm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352@r238/gems/activesupport-2.3.8/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:156:in require' /Users/jdm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352@r238/gems/bitly-0.6.2/lib/bitly/v3.rb:5 /Users/jdm/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p352/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:29:ingem_original_require'
/Users/jdm/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p352/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:29:in require' /Users/jdm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352@r238/gems/activesupport-2.3.8/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:156:inrequire'
/Users/jdm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352@r238/gems/activesupport-2.3.8/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:521:in new_constants_in' /Users/jdm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352@r238/gems/activesupport-2.3.8/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:156:inrequire'
/Users/jdm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352@r238/gems/bitly-0.6.2/lib/bitly.rb:9
/Users/jdm/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p352/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:29:in gem_original_require' /Users/jdm/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p352/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:29:inrequire'
/Users/jdm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352@r238/gems/activesupport-2.3.8/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:156:in require' /Users/jdm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352@r238/gems/activesupport-2.3.8/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:521:innew_constants_in'
/Users/jdm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352@r238/gems/activesupport-2.3.8/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:156:in require' /Users/jdm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352@r238/gems/rails-2.3.8/lib/rails/gem_dependency.rb:215:inload'
/Users/jdm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352@r238/gems/rails-2.3.8/lib/initializer.rb:307:in load_gems' /Users/jdm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352@r238/gems/rails-2.3.8/lib/initializer.rb:307:ineach'
/Users/jdm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352@r238/gems/rails-2.3.8/lib/initializer.rb:307:in load_gems' /Users/jdm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352@r238/gems/rails-2.3.8/lib/initializer.rb:169:inprocess'
/Users/jdm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352@r238/gems/rails-2.3.8/lib/initializer.rb:113:in send' /Users/jdm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352@r238/gems/rails-2.3.8/lib/initializer.rb:113:inrun'
/Users/jdm/Documents/rails/obviam/dev/config/environment.rb:9
/Users/jdm/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p352/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:29:in gem_original_require' /Users/jdm/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p352/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:29:inrequire'
/Users/jdm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352@r238/gems/activesupport-2.3.8/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:156:in require' /Users/jdm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352@r238/gems/activesupport-2.3.8/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:521:innew_constants_in'
/Users/jdm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352@r238/gems/activesupport-2.3.8/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:156:in require' /Users/jdm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352@r238/gems/rails-2.3.8/lib/commands/server.rb:84 /Users/jdm/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p352/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:29:ingem_original_require'
/Users/jdm/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p352/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:29:in `require'
script/server:3
=> Call with -d to detach
=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server
[2012-09-05 02:29:43] INFO WEBrick 1.3.1
[2012-09-05 02:29:43] INFO ruby 1.8.7 (2011-06-30) [i686-darwin11.2.0]
[2012-09-05 02:29:43] INFO WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=57637 port=3000

Here's my gems:

jdms-mm:~ User$ gem list

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

actionmailer (2.3.8)
actionpack (2.3.8)
activemodel (3.2.8)
activerecord (2.3.8)
activeresource (2.3.8)
activesupport (3.2.8, 2.3.8)
addressable (2.3.2, 2.2.8)
arel (3.0.2)
Ascii85 (1.0.1)
bitly (0.6.2)
builder (3.0.0)
bundler (1.0.21)
cancan (1.5.1)
chunky_png (1.2.6)
crack (0.3.1)
daemons (1.0.10)
delayed_job (2.0.4)
faraday (0.8.4, 0.7.6, 0.7.4)
faraday_middleware (0.7.0)
haml (3.1.7)
hashery (2.0.1)
hashie (1.2.0)
httparty (0.8.3)
httpauth (0.1)
i18n (0.4.2)
json (1.7.5)
json_pure (1.7.5)
jwt (0.1.5)
mime-types (1.19)
multi_json (1.3.6, 1.0.4)
multi_xml (0.5.1)
multipart-post (1.1.5)
mysql (2.8.1)
oauth (0.4.7, 0.4.5)
oauth2 (0.8.0, 0.5.1, 0.5.0)
omniauth (1.1.1)
omniauth-linkedin (0.0.8)
omniauth-oauth (1.0.1)
rack (1.4.1, 1.1.3)
rails (2.3.8)
rake (0.8.7)
rest-client (1.6.7)
ruby-rc4 (0.1.5)
rvm (1.11.3.5)
ttfunk (1.0.3)
tzinfo (0.3.33)
jdms-mm:~ User$

Remove v3 authenticate endpoint

This went away a long time ago!

oauth2 ~> 0.6.0

Any chance for a bump there?

Make timeouts configurable

Let's pass these tests.

clicks_by_day doesn't take the days parameter

http://code.google.com/p/bitly-api/wiki/ApiDocumentation#/v3/clicks_by_day shows that clicks_by_day can take an optional days parameter between 1 and 30. Currently the v3 client does not accept this parameter and defaults to 7 days.

Default to v3 API

And clean up old v2 code.

jmp_url seems not work.

I use bitly version 3.
when i call #short_url on bitly it work perfectly.
but call #jmp_url not work. An error occurred.

bitly.shorten("http://google.com/123/456").jmp_url
NoMethodError: undefined method `jmp_url' for #Bitly::V3::Url:0x108e9b908
from (irb):2

How can I do it??

bitly plays around with with $LOAD_PATH

From bitly.rb:

$:.unshift File.dirname(__FILE__)

You should not be messing with other people's $LOAD_PATH (e.g., $:). This line ends up causing require 'utils', require 'client', require 'url', require 'version', and require 'v3' to all preferentially load the copy from the bitly gem, instead of whatever they should actually point to.

Update to v3 of the API

http://code.google.com/p/bitly-api/wiki/ApiDocumentation

jmp_url doesn't work with api version 3

client = Bitly.client
client.shorten("http://google.com").jmp_url

I'm getting a no method error.

NoMethodError: undefined method 'shorten_url' for #<Bitly::V3::Url:0x007fe7e9a1dd20>

client.shorten("http://google.com").short_url works as expected and generates a bit.ly url.

INVALID_APIKEY with Generic Access Token

Sorry, I must be doing something wrong, as I'm following the example but when trying to shorten a URL I keep getting an error. I do this:

Bitly.use_api_version_3

Bitly.configure do |config|
    config.api_version = 3
    config.login = 'mylogin'
    config.api_key = 'myGenericAccessToken'
end

bitly_client = Bitly.client
#<Bitly::V3::Client:0x007fc87589bdc8 @default_query_opts={:login=>"mylogin", :apiKey=>"myGenericAccessToken"}> 

u = bitly_client.shorten("http://www.example.org")

That gets me:

BitlyError: INVALID_APIKEY - '500'
from /Users/phil/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/bitly-0.9.0/lib/bitly/v3/client.rb:141:in `get'
from /Users/phil/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/bitly-0.9.0/lib/bitly/v3/client.rb:41:in `shorten'
from (irb):17
from /Users/phil/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p392/bin/irb:16:in `<main>'

Anything obvious I've done wrong?

query methods of v3 Client are not side-effect free

In particular, if the input to these methods is an array, the array will be empty upon return.

Example code:

Bitly.use_api_version_3
MyBitly = Bitly.new("myuser", "myaccesstoken")
urls = [some, array, of bitlys]
clicks = MyBitly.clicks(urls)
puts "#{urls.inspect}\n"

Expected output: the array of bitlys
Actual output: an array the same size full of nils

passing title when creating link

Hey! would love to know, how can I pass the title for the long URL, so that in future I can search based on the title & get short link

Thanks

v3.rb file is causing some naming conflicts and load order problems

I came across this problem because when gem 'version' was included after gem 'bitly', it would cause an error when I tried to run a rake task.

undefined method 'to_version' for "1.2.8":String

When I included gem 'version' first, it would run without problems.

So, I think what is happening is that the line $:.unshift File.dirname(__FILE__) is including all of the /lib/bitly files in the load path and causing naming conflicts. Is there a reason why that line is in there at all? I changed the file to look like this and it fixed the problem.

# /lib/bitly/v3.rb
require 'httparty'
require 'cgi'
require 'oauth2'

require 'bitly/v3/bitly'
require 'bitly/v3/client'
require 'bitly/v3/url'
require 'bitly/v3/referrer'
require 'bitly/v3/day'
require 'bitly/v3/country'
require 'bitly/v3/missing_url'
require 'bitly/v3/realtime_link'
require 'bitly/v3/oauth'
require 'bitly/v3/user'

Use HTTPS not HTTP when communicating with api.bit.ly

While setting up the bitly gem I noticed that the API URL is set to:
API_URL = 'http://api.bit.ly/'

However when reviewing api.bitly.com, in their best practices I see their example of a valid API call to shorten the link uses:
https://api-ssl.bitly.com/

Is there any plan on updating this gem to use the https link so api keys aren't transmitted in cleartext?

Can't retrieve the short url in the view?!

Hello there,

I've been scratching my head for the last 2 hours and I can't find what I'm doing wrong.

Rails 4.2

gem 'bitly', '~> 0.10.4'

My initializer uses oAuth:

Bitly.use_api_version_3

Bitly.configure do |config|
  config.api_version = 3
  config.access_token = "0a9e6c23bb42efd17feffa3266dbd4aa7ec8d045"
end

Now when I'm trying to get in the view the short_url, I have in my controller show

@url = Bitly.client.shorten('http://www.google.com')
@short_url = @url.short_url

Now this is where it gets confusing.

• I'm able to shorten a link.
• It gets in the Bit.ly website with the proper short url.
• but I get a no-method error on my show page when calling @short_url in the view.

Why is that?
Where is my mistake?

Thanks!

• Vincent

API V4 support

Hi.

The bitly documents say that

API V3 will be deactivated on March 1, 2020.

Are there any plan to support API V4 in this gem?

Passing parameters to Bitly.client

According to https://dev.bitly.com/link_metrics.html#v3_link_clicks,
we can send multiple parameters like link, unit, etc.
i am actually looking for Clicks by Day
i tried Bitly.client.clicks("http://bit.ly/2tAL7YS").clicks_by_day, works fine
but i need to change Time Zone value
i tried this Bitly.client.info({"link" =>"http://bit.ly/2tAL7YS", "timezone" => -6}).clicks_by_day
and i am getting error. Please help

version 0.8.1 from rubygems doesn't support Bitly.configure

maybe bump the version nr, or mention it's not available in 0.8.1

Configuring through initializer isn't working

Hey, I might be doing something wrong, but I'm not able to configure a Bitly.client through an initializer.

I have config/initializers/secrets.rb with the following:

if Rails.env == "development"
  ENV['BITLY_USERNAME'] = user_name
  ENV['BITLY_API_KEY']  = api_key
end

I'm getting both from https://bitly.com/a/your_api_key.

And I have config/initializers/bitly.rb with this:

Bitly.configure do |config|
  config.api_version = 3
  config.login = ENV['BITLY_USERNAME']
  config.api_key = ENV['BITLY_API_KEY']
end

When I launch a Rails console, the env variables are correctly set, but initializing a new client with Bitly.client doesn't seem to be using the login credentials. It returns:

<Bitly::V3::Client:0x007ff960af3230 @default_query_opts={:login=>nil, :apiKey=>nil}>

Alias to_s on Url objects to short_url

I'm thinking that to_s on the url objects should return the short url.

Add missing endpoints

Looks like Bitly have added some endpoints since this was last released. Here are the new ones I think are missing:

Bitlinks

• Metrics for Bitlink by Cities
• Metrics for Bitlink by Devices

Groups

• Clicks by Group
• Click Metrics for a Group by Cities
• Click Metrics for a Group by Devices

Organizations

• Plan limits for an Organization

Release a functioning version please

Getting this with * bitly (0.8.1)

 BitlyError:
   JSON Parse Error(Bit.ly messed up) - '69'

Add user link_history endpoint

/v3/user/link_history

OAuth 2 endpoint that provides a given user’s link shortening history, in reverse chronological order (most recent to least recent).

Parameters

access_token is the OAuth access token for a bitly user.
format (optional) indicates the requested response format. supported formats: json (default), xml.
limit (optional, default: 50) indicated the number of results to return.
offset (optional) indicates the number of results to skip (ie, offset=1 skips the most recent link, offset=10 skips the 10 most recent link, offset=50 would paginate the default result set).
created_before (optional) unix timestamp indicating only to return links created at or before the specified time.
created_after (optional) unix timestamp indicating only to return links created at or after the specified time.

Note

This endpoint is only available on https://api-ssl.bitly.com/
This endpoint returns a maximum of 100 results.

Output

long_url is the long link that was shortened.
link is this particular user's bitly link for the specified long_url.
aggregate_link is the global bitly link for the specified long_url which can be used to track aggregate stats across all matching bitly links.
created_at is a unix timestamp representing the time at which the long_url was first shortened by this user.
title is the page title of the long_url.

warning messages for version 3 API

Hi am using bitly v3 API . but some how I am getting depreciation messages for bitly. is there anything I am missing.

'require "bitly"' yields pathname error

Hi, just installed the gem and was going to try it out when I got this error message when requiring the gem:

/Users/Johan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p0/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems.rb:1064:in `escape': can't convert Pathname to String (TypeError)
    from /Users/Johan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p0/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems.rb:1064:in `block in loaded_path?'
    from /Users/Johan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p0/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems.rb:1063:in `each'
    from /Users/Johan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p0/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems.rb:1063:in `find'
    from /Users/Johan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p0/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems.rb:1063:in `loaded_path?'
    from /Users/Johan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p0/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:35:in `require'
    from /Users/Johan/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/httparty-0.7.4/lib/httparty.rb:10:in `<top (required)>'
    from /Users/Johan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p0/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:54:in `require'
    from /Users/Johan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p0/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:54:in `require'
    from /Users/Johan/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/bitly-0.6.1/lib/bitly/v3.rb:3:in `<top (required)>'
    from /Users/Johan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p0/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:54:in `require'
    from /Users/Johan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p0/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:54:in `require'
    from /Users/Johan/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/gems/bitly-0.6.1/lib/bitly.rb:9:in `<top (required)>'
    from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:33:in `require'
    from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:33:in `rescue in require'
    from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:29:in `require'
    from bitly.rb:1:in `<main>'

Apparently it's something weird going on in the gem business – which bitly doesn't show me anything, and after a double-check in my gem dir (/Users/Johan/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0/bin) the bitly gem is nowhere to be found.

Would be really awesome if this could be fixed. I'm running Ruby 1.9.2 and RubyGems 1.6.2.

OAuth2 library is too old

Bitly client is using oauth >= 0.1.1, but the latest OAuth2 (0.5.1) has moved off pretty far.

For example, line 30 of lib/bitly/v3/oauth.rb

@access_token ||= ::OAuth2::AccessToken.new(client, token, nil, nil, params)

is not compatible with new OAuth2 AccessToken constructor

def initialize(client, token, opts={})

We are depending on oauth2 via two different routes and Bitly client's version is too old to be usable. Can you look into this?

Incompatible encoding regexp match (UTF-8 regexp with ASCII-8BIT string)

Problem with
Gem version: httparty 0.15.1

While fetching the referrers using Bitly::V3::User i am getting only today's data..How can i get the last 30 day's referrers

I am using bitly gem to access the bitly api. While fetching the referrers using Bitly::V3::User i am getting only today's data..How can i get the last 30 day's referrers. My code is here.

o = Bitly::V3::OAuth.new(configatron.bitly.client_id, configatron.bitly.client_secret)
@access_token = o.get_access_token_from_code(params[:code], configatron.bitly.redirect_url)
u=Bitly::V3::User.new(o.access_token)
@a = u.link_history
@r = u.referrers

Update oauth to >= 1.0.0

Update oauth to >= 1.0.0

Are you going to release the latest version as a gem to rubygems.org?

We need this fix, and would prefer to not build our own gem:

http://github.com/philnash/bitly/commit/a9509e8ac566f09c5a8b973570f8c6480f38de52

Thanks...

timeout

With the bitly snafu today, is there anyway to put in short timeout ( 2-3 seconds max ) or make it configurable for this library?

Some of my pages do on-the-fly Bitly link conversions for creating tweets and Bitly was taking over 30 seconds to return a timeout error which tied up processes on heroku. To a user, it seemed as the app was down because all processes were tied up.