Deleting a region targeting rule

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The instruction below shows how to delete a region targeting rule for a link.

1) Get your 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 delete a region targeting rule.

• 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 delete a region targeting rule.

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

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Please, replace link_idString and ISO country code, ISO region code with appropriate values.

You need to specify country ISO code and country region code in ISO-3166-2 format. Example: US (country) - United States; NY (region) - New York. You can find a necessary ISO code here: http://www.geonames.org

Python

import requests

url = "https://api.short.io/link_region/link_idString/DZ/07"

headers = {'authorization': '<<apiKey>>'}

response = requests.request("DELETE", url, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

Node.js

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

setApiKey("<<apiKey>>");

const result = await deleteLinkRegion({
  path: { linkId: "LINK_ID", country: "AO" }
});

console.log(result.data);

Ruby

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'openssl'

url = URI("https://api.short.io/link_region/LINK_ID/AO/17")

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

request = Net::HTTP::Delete.new(url)
request["authorization"] = '<<apiKey>>'

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 (a region targeting rule is removed).

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

{
  success: true
}