Allows you to expand bitly urls (via the
bitly API) in your QlikView application as well as accessing analytics data such as clicks, referrers and countries.
Usage
After authenticating with bitly using the 'Authenticate' button you should have a token in the textbox to the left of this button:
You can now enter a bitly shortened url (or comma separated list of urls for the 'Clicks' and 'Expand' tables) and use QVSource in the usual way to preview this data and generate the load script to paste into your QlikView application.
Typically you would loop through a table of shortened urls contained in your QlikView application (for example extracted via the
Twitter connector) and then adjust the bitly connector load script to run for each of these urls.
Caching
If you pass a single URL to the Expand table this connector will cache the results indefinitely.
Otherwise, this connector does not currently perform any caching of results.
API Status
This page shows the current status of the bitly API and should be checked first if you are experiencing issues with the connector.
Change Log
0.8.2 - 20/03/12
- Fixed issue which caused Clicks table to fail (seems to have been introduced into an earlier build).
0.8.1 - 08/02/12
- ClicksByDay table added (we still need to convert the date codes into real dates.
0.8.0 - 29/01/12