Shorten
API documentation - Create short links with our free API
Developer friends, you can create your own short links for free and without registration with our API.
To use our API, just send a GET request to:
https://shorten.ly/api.php?url=[URL]
Attaching your original link to be shortened as a parameter.
List of available parameters
| Name | Type | Mandatory |
|---|---|---|
| url | Any URL (Encoded) / max 2000 chars | yes |
| alias | Type text 2-30 chars | |
| password | Type text 6-30 chars | |
| expiration_date | Date format e.g: 2024-12-02 15:00 | |
| expiration_hits | Max number of hits before link expires | |
| cloak | bolean ( yes or no ) / Enable cloaking | |
| facebook_pixel | Facebook pixel ID | |
| x_pixel | X (Twitter) pixel ID | |
| adword_pixel | Adword pixel ID | |
| pinterest_pixel | Pinterest pixel ID | |
| linkedin_pixel | Linkedin pixel ID | |
| googleanalytics_pixel | Google Analytics pixel ID | |
| googletag_pixel | Google Tag manager pixel ID | |
| bing_pixel | Bing pixel ID | |
| quora_pixel | Quora pixel ID | |
| android | URL (Encoded) destination for android devices | |
| windows | URL (Encoded) destination for Widows devices | |
| mac | URL (Encoded) destination for Mac devices | |
| iphone | URL (Encoded) destination for (iOS) devices | |
| linux | URL (Encoded) destination for linux devices |
Example of a full request
https://shorten.ly/api.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mylogdomain.com%2Farticle%2Flong-title.html&alias=shorty&expiration_date=2024-12-12 12:00&android=https%3A%2F%2Fplay.google.com%2Fstore%2Fapps%2Fdetails%3Fid%3Dcom.instagram.barcelona
Example of a JSON response
{
"success":200,
"response_message":"success",
"short_url":"https://tin.al/shorty",
"secret_password":"AhE5zjHYE",
"creation_date":"2024-12-24 12:00"
} Rate Limit.
To ensure the stability of our API and manage unexpected spikes in requests, we have introduced a daily rate limit of 50 short link for unique IP address