su.pr Traffic Results and API Tests

Alex — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:02:35 +0000

So I finally have enough data to report on the su.pr mods we made to our systems as discussed in the post “su.pr – cURL Links into your Account with Login/API”. They came out great. I really only started working with StumbleUpon a few weeks ago and we’re already seeing great results. For the most part, it really just started picking up after we installed su.pr.

Here’s a screenshot of the results since su.pr. You can tell right when we got it installed. The effects shows the next day.

su.pr traffic

su.pr – cURL Links into your Account with Login/API

Alex — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:52:22 +0000

Unlike bit.ly, tinyurl, or any of the other 50 services, su.pr is the first URL shortener to also syndicate content. I’m a bit late in posting about this but they did a terrific job on their URL shortener. The catch here is that it also syndicates in StumbleUpon (SU) which is absolutely kick ass. You know what that means? More traffic, a content-rich SU blog, and more links into the Internet.

This handy snippet of code will take the $url variable and churn it through the system to generate your new $SU_newURL.

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01 
02 // Set username and password
03 $SU_username = "username";
04 $SU_api = "34827348732fakekey";
05  
06 // The SUPR API address
07 $SU_url = "http://su.pr/api";
08  
09 // URL to Shorten
10 $SU_shortUrl="$url";
11  
12 // Combine URL
13 $SU_vars = "?url=$SU_shortUrl&login=$SU_username&apiKey=$SU_api";
14  
15 // Set up and execute the curl process
16 $curl_handle = curl_init();
17 curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, $SU_url . $SU_vars);
18 curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2);
19 curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
20 curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, 1); 
21 $buffer = curl_exec($curl_handle);
22 curl_close($curl_handle);
23 /*
24 // check for success or failure
25 if (empty($buffer)) {
26     echo 'message';
27 } else {
28     echo $buffer;
29 }
30 */
31  
32 //$SU_newURL = str_replace("su.pr/", "", $buffer);
33  
34 echo $SU_newURL;
35

This part here is optional:

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1 
2 $SU_newURL = str_replace("su.pr/", "", $buffer);
3

When you use the "sync" or host the shortened URL on your own domain through the su.pr .htaccess mods, it returns the hash and link as http://su.pr/domain.com/hash_key

That can kind of mess things up. All the optional code does is extra the su.pr out.

01
02	// Set username and password
03	$SU_username = "username";
04	$SU_api = "34827348732fakekey";
05
06	// The SUPR API address
07	$SU_url = "http://su.pr/api";
08
09	// URL to Shorten
10	$SU_shortUrl="$url";
11
12	// Combine URL
13	$SU_vars = "?url=$SU_shortUrl&login=$SU_username&apiKey=$SU_api";
14
15	// Set up and execute the curl process
16	$curl_handle = curl_init();
17	curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, $SU_url . $SU_vars);
18	curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2);
19	curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
20	curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, 1);
21	$buffer = curl_exec($curl_handle);
22	curl_close($curl_handle);
23	/*
24	// check for success or failure
25	if (empty($buffer)) {
26	echo 'message';
27	} else {
28	echo $buffer;
29	}
30	*/
31
32	//$SU_newURL = str_replace("su.pr/", "", $buffer);
33
34	echo $SU_newURL;
35

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su.pr Traffic Results and API Tests

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