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My client has database of over 400,000 customers. Each customer is assigned a GUID. He wants me to select all the records, create a dynamic “short URL” which includes this GUID as a parameter. Then save this short url to a field on each clients record.
The first question I have is do any of the URL shortening sites allow you to programatically create short urls on the fly like this?
TinyUrl allow you to do it (not widely documented), for example:
http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=http://www.stackoverflow.com/
becomes http://tinyurl.com/6fqmtu
So you could have
http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=http://mysite.com/user/xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx
to http://tinyurl.com/64dva66.
The guid doesn’t end up being that clear, but the URLs should be unique
Note that you’d have to pass this through an HTTPWebRequest and get the response.