How would you shorten 5,000+ URLs? [closed]
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How would you go about shortening approximately 5,000 permalinks? The links point to a remote media archiving server, and are unlikely to change.
Example URLs:
- rtsp://foo-1.bar.com/xx/xx/xx/xx.rm
- http://media.foo.org/xx/xx/xx.mp4
The URLs are going to be stored in a local MySQL database, as such it's crucial that the URLs are in a manageable form (i.e bit.ly or ow.ly).
There are bulk URL shortening services, but those only allow shortening of 100 links/day, which isn't technically feasible so I need to think of something else.
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