Creating a new short URL with Link Expiration

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The instruction below shows how to create a short URL with expiration.

1) Get your secret API key here: https://app.short.io/settings/integrations/api-key

• Click "Create API key".
• Add a Secret key.

2) Copy an ID of a short link you want to edit.

• Open the statistics of the short link.
• Copy the link ID.

3) Install prerequisites for requests.

Python

pip install requests

Node.js

npm install @short.io/client-node

Now everything is ready to run the following snippet. It will create a short URL with expiration.

4) Create a file: filename.py/ .js/ .rb. Use the code snippet below.

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Please, replace domain, original URL, expiresAt and expiredURL with appropriate values.

Python

import requests
import time
import datetime

url = "https://api.short.io/links"

import json
payload = json.dumps({
      "allowDuplicates":False,
      "expiredURL":"https://analytics.google.com/analytics/web/",
      "expiresAt":time.mktime(datetime.datetime.strptime("22.05.2020 15:56:53", "%d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S").timetuple()) * 1000,
      "domain":"short-domain.com",
      "originalURL":"https://medium.com/"})
headers = {
    'accept': "application/json",
    'content-type': "application/json",
    'authorization': "<<apiKey>>"
    }

response = requests.request("POST", url, data=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

Node.js

import { setApiKey, createLink } from "@short.io/client-node";

setApiKey("<<apiKey>>");

const result = await createLink({
  body: {
    allowDuplicates: false,
    expiredURL: "https://analytics.google.com/analytics/web/",
    expiresAt: new Date("2020-05-22T15:56:53").valueOf(),
    domain: "short-domain.com",
    originalURL: "https://medium.com/"
  }
});

console.log(result.data);

Ruby

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'openssl'
require 'json'
require 'time'

url = URI("https://api.short.io/links")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["accept"] = 'application/json'
request["content-type"] = 'application/json'
request["authorization"] = '<<apiKey>>'
request.body = JSON.generate({"allowDuplicates":false,
"expiredURL":"https://analytics.google.com/analytics/web/",
"expiresAt":Time.parse("22.05.2020 15:56:53").to_i * 1000,
"domain":"short-domain.com",
"originalURL":"https://medium.com/"})

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

5) Launch the file.

Python

python filename.py

Node.js

node filename.js

Ruby

ruby filename.rb

6) JSON Response (link expiration is created).

Once you run the code, you will see the response.

{
  id: 281221653,
  originalURL: 'https://www.moesif.com/',
  DomainId: 902,
  archived: false,
  path: 'H2uuRk',
  expiresAt: '2020-05-22T12:56:53.000Z',
  expiredURL: 'https://analytics.google.com/analytics/web/',
  redirectType: null,
  createdAt: '2020-04-27T07:39:21.558Z',
  OwnerId: 9346,
  updatedAt: '2020-04-27T07:39:21.558Z',
  secureShortURL: 'https://short-domain.com/H2uuRk',
  shortURL: 'https://short-domain.com/H2uuRk',
  duplicate: false
}

Here's how it looks on Short.io: