unable to get goo.gl shorten url to work

[rt2]

Hi Martin,

I tried bitly, I entered the username & pw correctly in the settings..

the tweet was :

correct url ((bitly)https://rootjazz.com/twitterdub/updatetesting.html)


but I got the following error:


Posting tweet:
Using account: xxxx
Posting: 683016408 to xxxx
PostTweet : using:xxxx
* ERROR: BITLY: Unable to extract "errorCode"
*** Please check your BitLy API details as entered to the settings tab, ensure the details are correct and the account is working and valid ***
* ERROR: TwitterErrorLog: Unable to extract "errorCode"
* FAILED: 683016408 to xxxx

[martin@rootjazz]

bitly refuses the details, have you entered correctly?

https://bitly.com/a/your_api_key

[rt2]

Thanks Martin.. its working now, the problem was with the password/api key, I used the password instead of the username/api key

btw, whats the diff between (bitly) and (bitly-rand)?

Regards

[martin@rootjazz]

log into bitly and get a bitly for your domain name

it will always be the same bitly

if you want to get a unique bitly for the SAME URL, you need to add some randomness

https://rootjazz.com/?a=1209381092
https://rootjazz.com/?b=1283091283

all will point to
https://rootjazz.com/

but will give you a unique bitly, that is bitly-rand

[rt2]

well, does that mean using (bitly) will always use bit.ly while (bitly-rand) requires a domain ?


also, when adding more than 1 bitly account in the settings, will TD jump to the next bitly account automaticaly if one reach the limit?

because I used another bot and got "rate linit" error message displayed within the tweet!!

Thank you

[martin@rootjazz]

((bitly)https://rootjazz.com/)

will always equal:
http://bit.ly?a=09876


Whereas
((bitly-rand)https://rootjazz.com/)

will ALWAYS be a unique bitly URL



if you enter bulk bitly details, then a different account is chosen at random each time

[rt2]

you put that in your tweet text (for example)


OR let me know what you are trying to do - where you want your randomised link to appear

I have a large text file with urls in some of the lines.

how can I shorten all exisiting urls in that file without modifying the urls in the file to be ((bitly)url.com)

knowing urls in the file contain different domain names.

Thank you.

[martin@rootjazz]

you would have to do it manually