Well, I managed to finish off testing all the URL shortening services yesterday. However, as this had involved code changes I thought it only prudent to re-test them all again.

Now I have 4 broken again… so more testing today. I notice that one site has been suspended – I wonder whether I should include them, assuming they’ll be back, or remove them?

You never know, I might have this plugin out this week. Maybe.

After an entire lunch of debugging, I’d managed to fix 2 URL shorteners! Sure enough, there was a bug in my JSON script.

Anyway, I spent a lot more time in the evening and managed to get the failures from 39 down to 14. This included 2 further bugs in the JSON code!

What has become obvious, is that there are few issues which effect a lot of URL shorteners – many are individual problems. There are also 2 APIs which don’t appear to be working properly, so the number I launch with may be going down.

I’ll spent this lunchtime hacking down the number again (although the poor, poor FTP speed I get at work really doesn’t help with this).

Well, testing has started.

Of the 122 URL shortening services (yes, it’s gone up since yesterday!), 71 worked.

Hmm. All of those that return in JSON format failed so I’m guessing my JSON extraction routine needs some attention! 39 failed  and 12 weren’t properly tested because they required extra parameters (such as API keys) which I didn’t provide at the time.

Guess what I’m going to be busy doing this lunchtime…