KDE/kdeplasma-addons/applets/pastebin

[Travis]

On Thursday 09 July 2009 6:22:32 am Artur Duque de Souza wrote:
> SVN commit 993753 by asouza:
>
> TinyURL support on pastebin
>
> Now if you drop an http url on pastebin it will give you back a
> tinyurl. Right now I didn't implement this as a backend as we do
> not have others for tinyurl, but we may want this to be a backend
> for the sake of cleaness.
>
> CCMAIL:plasma-devel at kde.org

It looks like you're using screen-scraping to grab the url which isn't-
A) future proof (what if they change their site design?) and
B) wastes their bandwidth (perhaps marginal, but still a waste). 

They prefer you to use the api which returns a small amount of plaintext where 
you just need to take the final line and that's your URL. I've done this for 
the Konversation tinyurl shell script found here: 
http://lxr.kde.org/source/extragear/network/konversation/data/scripts/tinyurl


Travis McHenry