Bit.ly API call hitting original URL before/after creating short url

I’m generating Bit.ly short url with v3 api. In original URL I have some DB action after hitting it. But when I generates the bit.ly url, it automatically hit the original URL.

Check my below code of bit.ly api call.

$url = 'http://api.bit.ly/v3/shorten?login='.BITLYAPICALLLOGIN.'&apiKey='.BITLYAPICALLAPIKEY.'&uri='.urlencode($longurl).'&format=json';

$s = curl_init();  
curl_setopt($s,CURLOPT_URL, $url);  
curl_setopt($s,CURLOPT_HEADER,false);  
curl_setopt($s,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1); 
curl_setopt($s,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,2); 
$result = curl_exec($s);  
curl_close( $s );

Can we avoid automatic URL call from bit.ly?

Answer

Bitly does fetch the long URL of a Bitlink to retrieve page title and related information. Our requests respect the robots.txt standard (http://www.robotstxt.org).

If you wish to request our systems stop making these requests, you may do so by updating your robots.txt file on the appropriate domain. Note that we do cache a site’s robots.txt for 24 hours, so it will take a day before the change takes effect.

The robots.txt stanza to disable this behavior is:

User-agent: bitlybot
Disallow: /

Also I’d recommend updating to V4 of our API as it is the latest and greatest: https://dev.bitly.com