How to use Bitly to shorten URL with Laravel

#laravel #bitly

Today's post we will see how to use Bitly to shorten URL with Laravel without any external package in easy way.

Prerequisites:

• A Laravel project.
• An Account on Bitly.

Step 1: Get token from Bitly

After login in Bitly go to this page and enter your password then click Generate token

Step 2: Create Service for Bitly

Now go to your Laravel project and in app directory create a folder called Services and inside it create a file called Bitly.php will contains this:

<?php

namespace App\Services;

use Throwable;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Http;

class Bitly
{
    public static function convert($link)
    {
        try {
            $response =  Http::accept('application/json')
                ->withToken('6ec991aXXXXXXXXXX40c996d88afa')
                ->post('https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v4/shorten', 
                    "domain" => "bit.ly",
                    "long_url" => $link,
                ]);

            $body = $response->json();

            return $body['link'];
        } catch (Throwable $e) {
            return 'invalid url';
        }
    }
}

In withToken put your token that you get from Bitly

In this class I used Http which is guzzlehttp/guzzle package that comes with Laravel by default.
$body have several information you can use it, just dd($body) and see if they help you.
I used try|catch for the purpose of anyone entering an invalid URL.

For sure you can create config file for the token and put it in .env file.

Step 3: Use Bitly service

Now go to your controller and use Bitly class, something like this:

use App\Services\Bitly;

class BitlyController extends Controller
{
    public function __invoke()
    {
        $link = Bitly::convert('https://dev.to');

        return $link;
    }
}

The $link will return the Bitly short url use it as you want.