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do u see anything wrong with this? it returns null for some reasons
public string urlShorter(string url)
{
string finalURL = "";
string post = "{\"longUrl\": \"" + url + "\"}";
string shortUrl = url;
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url?key=" + key);
request.ServicePoint.Expect100Continue = false;
request.Method = "POST";
request.ContentLength = post.Length;
request.ContentType = "application/json";
request.Headers.Add("Cache-Control", "no-cache");
using (Stream requestStream = request.GetRequestStream())
{
byte[] postBuffer = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(post);
requestStream.Write(postBuffer, 0, postBuffer.Length);
}
using (HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse())
{
using (Stream responseStream = response.GetResponseStream())
{
using (StreamReader responseReader = new StreamReader(responseStream))
{
string json = responseReader.ReadToEnd();
finalURL = Regex.Match(json, @"""id"": ?""(?.+)""").Groups["id"].Value;
}
}
}
return finalURL;
}
Have you checked what's actually being returned to by the http request?
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