Bitly using Mashape

Mashape is an API marketplace where service providers and individual developers can instantly make available an API.Its FREE to use.

Mashape can used in 2 ways

1. Making use of the featured API’s available in Mashape
2. To generate our own API using Mashape.We can upload our API in Mashape & push it into cloud.They are providing the infrastructure for generating the API.

I tried out the first way, which I need currently to work on
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They are in ready to use state.Avaiable in Ruby, Java, Python, PHP Obj-C, and JSON

I tried out with SimpleGeo and Bitly.

Steps to work on Bitly using Mashape :

Step1: SignIn Mashape.Get the API key.It's an automatically generated key which allows you to use the Mashape API from an application. [Ex:API key will be like this APP Key : sgFFDCfgEOKsLMsO9X7l75gCI]


Step2: Download the featured Bitly API from Mashape .
The Jar will contain Bitly component's Java client library will contain the following files:

- mashapeClient.jar - This file to be include in the project, that contains the core
functionalities of every Java client library and that is
immutable for every component.
- Bitly.java - The auto-generated *.java file for the component, that
declares a Bitly class.
- LICENSE - README

Step3 Download the following jars to work on all the above API's using Mashape.

- httpclient-4.0.jar
- httpcore-4.0-beta3.jar
- json-rpc-1.0.jar
- json-20080701.jar

Step4 Signup in Bitly & get the bitly-login and bitly-Api-key.

Step5 Code:

//Enter Mashape API key 
Bitly bitly=new Bitly("sgFFDCfgEOKsLMsO9X7l75gCI ");

//Pass the url to be shortened, bitly-login and bitly-Api-key &it returens the JSONObject

JSONObject bitlyResponse = bitly.getShortenedUrl("http://sundarishree.blogspot.com/","shree","R_08de4b3475dd5655818230c15c4966471");

Advantage of this Mashape is no need to download the API jar from different sites. We can get in one point.