An irssi script to shorten long links using brwyatt.net (my personal site)

LinkShortener.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use Irssi;
require LWP::UserAgent;
use vars qw($VERSION %IRSSI);

$VERSION = "0.1";

%IRSSI = (
    authors     => 'Bryan Wyatt',
    contact     => 'brwyatt@brwyatt.net',
    name        => 'linkshortener.pl',
    description => 'This script will shorten your link using brwyatt.net and post it to the channel.',
    license     => 'GNU General Public License',
    url         => 'https://gist.github.com/brwyatt/7729368',
    changed     => '2013-12-01 0055 GMT-6',
);

sub shortenlink {
	my ($data, $server, $witem) = @_;
	
	
	my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
	$ua->timeout(10);
	$ua->agent("FetchTitleLinkPreview/".$VERSION);
	$ua->env_proxy;

	my $response = $ua->get($data);

	if (!$response->is_error) {
		my $title = $response->title();
		
		my $ua2 = LWP::UserAgent->new;
		$ua2->timeout(10);
		$ua2->env_proxy;
		
		$data =~ s/&/%26/g;
		$data =~ s/\+/%2B/g;
		
		my $response2 = $ua2->get("https://brwyatt.net/linkshortener/create?u=".$data."");
		
		if($response2 ne "ERROR"){
			$witem->command("MSG ".$witem->{name}." https://brwyatt.net/l/".$response2->content." -- ".$title."");
		}else{
			Irssi::print("Error in Returned Data! (server reported an error)");
		}
	}
	else {
		Irssi::print("Error in URL: \"".$data."\"");
	}
}

Irssi::command_bind('link', 'shortenlink');