Hi, I am not sure I fully understand what your trying to do but maybe something here will help. :)
for a bit.ly url like http://bit.ly/2FgTDX To preview it you can add either a + to the end of it or insert /info/ http://bit.ly/2FgTDX+ http://bit.ly/info/2FgTDX They also have an API... http://code.google.com/p/bitly-api/wiki/ApiDocumentation http://code.google.com/p/bitly-api/wiki/ApiDocumentation#REST_API So you could use a JSON http://api.bit.ly/expand?version=2.0.1&shortUrl=http://bit.ly/2FgTDX&login=bitlyapidemo&apiKey=R_0da49e0a9118ff35f52f629d2d71bf07 Or JSONP (&callback=foo) http://api.bit.ly/expand?version=2.0.1&shortUrl=http://bit.ly/2FgTDX&callback=foo&login=bitlyapidemo&apiKey=R_0da49e0a9118ff35f52f629d2d71bf07 or by Hash http://api.bit.ly/info?version=2.0.1&hash=2FgTDX&login=bitlyapidemo&apiKey=R_0da49e0a9118ff35f52f629d2d71bf07 hope something there help :) Cheers! Vision Jinx @visionjinx On Jul 15, 7:14 am, Bjoern <bjoer...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > The problem is: how to find tweets that point to a certain URL. Most > of those tweets would use a shortened version of the URL, and most of > them probably bit.ly. Bit.ly does not provide a way to list all > shortened versions of a URL, and creates individually shortened > versions of each URL per User (namely, the twitter user, so there is > no way to find the URL that is created via Twitter status updates - > which would probably be the most common URL). > > I thought I had found a way to at least approximate searching for > bit.ly-masked references on twitter with the /stats method from bitly. > Giving a bitly hash, the /stats method lists referrers by urls, which > might look like this (part of a /stats response): > > "twitter.com": { "/": 1, "/testFollowAPI": 1 } } > > So I figured that I could then take all the paths that are not common > Twitter paths (like /home, /, /replies, /favorites, /inbox) and assume > that they are twitter accounts. > > Then I searched Twitter for tweets from these accounts containing > "bit.ly". For each hit, I would then again ask bit.ly to expand the > bit.ly url in the tweet. With any luck, I would find the tweet > referencing the url. > > Apart from the fact that it is a pretty wasteful process (lots of > calls to bitly and also to Twitter search), I only just realized that > of course /stats only lists references when somebody has clicked on a > bit.ly URL. Since I don't expect many people to click on the URL on a > user's profile page, the utility of this approach is greatly > diminished. I think most of the referrers would just be /home if users > click on tweets in their stream. > > I don't suppose Twitter would be willing to "click" on each incoming > bit.ly link with referrer from the tweeting user's page at least > once? ;-) > > I gave the long story because I want to emphasize that as far as I > know, there still is no proper solution to this. Bit.ly does NOT > provide a way to list all shortened versions of an URL. > > If there is such a method, please point me to it, because I just don't > see it. > > I filed an issue for this a while ago, but it was closed with the > announcement that it would be solved sometime in the future. > Unfortunately there was not new "issue" or "feature" created that I > could track to see when it would be solved. > > The original issue is > here:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=402 > > Sorry for the long post - I just wasted so much time trying to work > around the issue, and only realized the flaws in the approach right > now... > > Björn
