Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: buildlink
Version: 1.0.0
Summary: buildlink is a python program which helps you to shorten link with a single command without any registration or using any API Key.Its also provide option to expand any link available on internet on wide range of domain names.
Home-page: https://github.com/TechUX/buildlink
Author: Devesh Singh
Author-email: connect.world12345@gmail.com
License: MIT
Keywords: link
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Requires-Python: >=2.0
Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
License-File: LICENSE

# buildlink
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buildlink is a python program which helps you to shorten link with a single command without any registration or using any API Key. Its is capable of expanding any link available on internet. with support of wide range of domain names.

# Features
- ### Link Shortening
buildlink has ability to shorten any long url into short url using 5 different service providers along with custom alias for shorten link

 <br>**Note :** ```alias``` for link shortening must be less than 30 characters. <br>
 *i.e.* ```shorten("url", alias="less than 30 char")``` <br><br>
 

- ### Link Expanding
with the help of ```expand()``` , you can expand any shorten link available on internet to their long form without visiting really to that link. <br> This is helpful when you get malicious short link and you want to know actual URL behind the shorten one, without clicking on the Link.

# Functions
- #### ```expand(url)```
This function takes one input as a parameter and return the Long URL associated with the short link. <br>
**Return Type :**  string

```python
expand("https://tinyurl.com/yuxh3b37")

# Output : https://github.com/TechUX/buildlink
```
[See Examples](#examples)

- #### ```shorten(url, service, alias)```
This function takes three parameters as a input, url, service for shortening, and alias . <br>
**Return Type :** list - list of shortened URL , *if no service is privided*

```python
shorten("https://github.com/TechUX/buildlink", service="tinyurl")

# Output : https://tinyurl.com/yuxh3b37
```

[See Examples](#examples)

- #### ```help()```
This function display a basic help page of the package.

## Options
There are 5 options which is available for ```service```.
<br> These are as follow :

  | Service | Domain |
  |:---------: | :--------: |
  | tinyurl | tinyurl.com |
  | isgd | is.gd |
  | clckru | clck.ru |
  | chilpit | chilp.it |
  | daga | da.gd |
 
 **Note :** length of ```alias``` must be less than 30 characters.
 
# Examples
## Link shortening
```python
import buildlink as link

long_url = "https://github.com/TechUX/buildlink/blob/main/README.md"

shorten_url = link.shorten(long_url)

print(shorten_url)

# Output : ['https://tinyurl.com/2mksjsq7', 'https://is.gd/e8tsIB', 'https://clck.ru/33GnAf', 'http://chilp.it/6c70182\n', 'https://da.gd/tsttQ\n']
```

### Shortening with service specified 
for this, just add the ```service="<service_value>``` parameter.
```python
import buildlink as link

long_url = "https://github.com/TechUX/buildlink/blob/main/README.md"

shorten_url = link.shorten(long_url, service="tinyurl")

print(shorten_url)

# Output : https://tinyurl.com/2mksjsq7
```

### Shortening with alias
```python
import buildlink as link

long_url = "https://github.com/TechUX/buildlink/blob/main/README.md"

shorten_url = link.shorten(long_url, alias="pylink")

print(shorten_url)

# Output : https://is.gd/pylink

```

## Link Expanding
```python
import buildlink as link

short_url = "https://is.gd/pylink"

long_url = link.expand(short_url)

print(longurl)

# Output : https://github.com/TechUX/buildlink/blob/main/README.md
```


# Supported Domain for link shortening
this package is currently using 5 domains to short link :
These are as follow
 - [Tinyurl](https://tinyurl.com)
 - [is.gd](https://is.gd)
 - [clck.ru](https://clck.ru)
 - [chilp.it](http://chilp.it)
 - [da.gd](https://da.gd)

# Supported Domain for link expanding
Almost all the shorten domains are supported for expansion.
buildlink supports a wide range of URL shortening services, including t.co, goo.gl, bit.ly, amzn.to, tinyurl.com, ow.ly, youtu.be, rg.gy, adf.ly and many others.

# Issues & Pull Requests 

If you find any issue or bug in the package, kindly post it on [Issue page](https://github.com/TechUX/buildlink/issues) .
[Go to Issue page](https://github.com/TechUX/buildlink/issues)

New Ideas and Innovations are always welcomed. [Create a pull request](https://github.com/TechUX/buildlink/compare) if you want to add something new or have a fix of any bug.
<br>[Click here for Pull Request](https://github.com/TechUX/buildlink/pulls)


# About
A simple , lghtweight python package which have ability of shortening and expanding links.<br>
You can shorten a long URL with 5 different services and also expand any shorten URL of internet to its original Long form in a single Click.
<br>Try this package now. [Its available on pypi](https://pypi.org/project/buildlink/).

# Author & License
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**Author** : Devesh Singh [ [GitHub: @TechUX](https://github.com/TechUX/) | Instagram : [@devesh92744](https://instagram.com/devesh92744) : [@code.radius](https://instagram.com/code.radius) ]

**License**
This project is under MIT License. 
<br>[Click Here for detailed License](https://github.com/TechUX/buildlink/blob/main/LICENSE)


