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Robby Gunawan
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February 2, 2016 at 8:21 pm
Hi,
Is it possible to use bit.ly or something else to shortener the ticket URL? I want to broadcast SMS reminder with ticket URL, but with current URL is too long to texting (domain.com/?ee=ee-txn-tickets-url&token=12131-d49c68bd7bd489026b8acd812445685147597), better using bit.ly/ticket1
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Tony
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February 3, 2016 at 4:15 am
Hi Robby,
Event Espresso does not currently integrate with biy.ly (or other URL shorteners) so whilst it is possible to do the above it would require custom development.
Note that you also can not just generate the bitly links on the fly when sending the messages. For example if you are sending a batch of 50 messages you can not just automatically generate each of those 50 links as the messages is generated and include them. The reason for this is bitly (and likely any of the other similar services) use rate limiting:
bitly currently institutes per-month, per-hour, per-minute, and per-IP rate limits for each API method, and limits API users to a maximum of five concurrent connections from a single IP address.
Meaning the links would need to be generated during the registration and stored with the registration so that you can then just pull the information from the database when sending.
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