Application Settings: Bitly Accounts


Bitly Accounts

You can use RSS Graffiti to publish shortened URLs to Facebook.

 

What does RSSGraffiti need:

In order to shorten your URLs, RSSGraffiti needs you to connect your bitly account(s) (... and you to request that URLs are to be shortened)

This is required among others  because bitly has a limitation on the number of requests allowed per user. Thus it is impossible for RSSGraffiti to shorten the URLs of all its users as this limit is just not adequate.

Furthermore, using your own  bitly account, you can get detailed statistics about the clicks your URLs are getting .

You need to add at least one bitly account at your User account settings to be able to shorten your feed URLs  in any of your walls.

Connecting your account is done using the bitly Login, and the bitly API key . We are NOT asking you to give us your bitly password, only to authorize us to use it to shorten your URLs.

 

What does RSSGraffiti do:

RSSGraffiti uses the account that is configured for each feed to parse your feed's URLs, shorten them, and using your configuration settings publishes it on your wall.

Bitly accounts are added per user account. You can add multiple bitly accounts.  These accounts can be used for any Profile, Fan Page or Group a user administers, and for any of the feeds added to these walls.

RSSGraffiti uses a cascading logic to determine which account to use for each feed.

First it checks if an account is specified for the specific feed and uses it.

If nothing is configured it checks to see if a bitly account is selected for the Fan Page / Profile / Group and uses it.

If nothing is found it looks if any accounts are added (by any of the users administering the specified wall) and uses the first available.

If nothing is found it tries to use its own generic account without guaranteed results (due to the requests limitation aforementioned)

 

How To Configure:

 

This is done in simple steps:

  1. Add your Bitly Account by clicking the "Add account" button and following the on screen instructions.
  2. Go to each of your Profile / Fan Page / Group settings , to select the twitter account  to be used by feeds published on this wall
  3. Add your RSS feed on the desired wall.
  4. Configure the RSS feed according to your needs. 
  5. Preview all your settings by clicking on the "Fetch and preview" link. This is an exact - or as close as it can get - preview of the post that will appear on your wall. Modify your settings to get a live preview of the changes before you save them!
  6. Save your feed.