# NAME WWW::Shorten::GitHub - Shorten GitHub URLs using GitHub's URL shortener - git.io # SYNOPSIS This module provides a perl interface to GitHub's URL shortening service, git.io. It allows you to shorten any GitHub URL, and also retrieve the original URL from a pre-shortened URL # USAGE use WWW::Shorten 'GitHub'; my $long_url = 'https://github.com/LoonyPandora/WWW-Shorten-GitHub'; my $short_url = makeashorterlink($long_url); # CAVEATS Git.io only shortens URLs on github.com and its subdomains. It is not a general purpose URL shortener. # SEE ALSO [WWW::Shorten](http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?WWW::Shorten), [http://git.io/help](http://git.io/help) # AUTHOR James Aitken # COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2011 by James Aitken. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.