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madeny/url-shortener
====================

Url Shortener for Laravel 5 with support for Google and Bitly drivers.

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Laravel 5.5 url shortener
=========================

[](#laravel-55-url-shortener)

Smattering
----------

[](#smattering)

URL shortener package with Laravel Package Auto-Discovery.

Installation and Setup
----------------------

[](#installation-and-setup)

Require through composer

```
composer require madeny/url-shortener

```

Or manually edit your composer.json file:

```
"require": {
    "madeny/url-shortener": "1.0"
}

```

Config: .env to have this for bitly driver:

```
URL_SHORTENER_BITLY_USERNAME=username
URL_SHORTENER_BITLY_PASSWORD=password

```

for google driver:

```
URL_SHORTENER_GOOGLE_API_KEY=apikey

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

### Shorten a url

[](#shorten-a-url)

```
```php
\UrlShortener::shorten('http://google.com'); // Uses default driver as per config settings
\UrlShortener::driver('bitly')->shorten('http://google.com');
```

```

### Expand a url

[](#expand-a-url)

```
```php
\UrlShortener::expand('http://google.com'); // Uses default driver as per config settings
\UrlShortener::driver('bitly')->expand('http://google.com');
```

```

###  Health Score

22

—

LowBetter than 22% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity18

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity35

Early-stage or recently created project

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/46306faa5b7866c7ea88fcfb1a0cfc7d279fbee0fdbdc57149c1c82b206f2262?d=identicon)[madeny](/maintainers/madeny)

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Top Contributors

[![madeny](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7504281?v=4)](https://github.com/madeny "madeny (1 commits)")

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