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SRAN Short URL's API

(update on 7/10/2009)

Features

• Generate or get existing short URLs, with sequential or custom keyword
• Get some statistics about your links: top clicked links, least clicked links, newest links
• Output format: JSON, XML, or simple raw text

Usage

You need to send parameters to http://sran.org/sran-api.php either via GET or POST. These parameters are:

• The requested action: "shorturl" (get short URL for a link) or "stats" (get stats about your links)
• With action = "shorturl" :
  • the url to shorten
  • optional keyword for custom short URLs
  • output format : either "json", "xml" or "simple"
• With action = "stats" :
  • the filter: either "top", "bottom" , "rand" or "last"
  • the limit (maximum number of links to return)
  • output format: either "json" or "xml"

Sample return

<result> <url> <id>62019439011</id> <keyword>shorter</keyword> <url>http://somereallylongurlyouneedtoshrink.com/</url> <date>2009-06-23 18:08:07</date> <ip>127.0.0.1</ip> </url> <status>success</status> <message>http://somereallylongurlyouneedtoshrink.com/ (ID: shorter) added to database</message> <shorturl>http://sran.org/shorter</shorturl> </result>

Sample PHP implementation

<?php /* * SRAN Short URL : sample file showing how to use the API */ // EDIT THIS: the query parameters $url = 'http://example.com/blog/'; // URL to shrink $keyword = 'example'; // optional keyword $format = 'json'; // output format: 'json', 'xml' or 'simple' // EDIT THIS: the URL of the API file $api_url = 'http://sran.org/sran-api.php'; // Init the CURL session $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $api_url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); // No header in the result curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); // Return, do not echo result curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); // This is a POST request curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array( // Data to POST 'url' => $url, 'keyword' => $keyword, 'format' => $format )); // Fetch and return content $data = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); // Do something with the result. Here, we just echo it. echo $data; ?>