Generating QR code for a link

Creating an QR code for a link

Before you begin, create a Secret API key by following the guidelines in this article.
Get the link ID of the short link you want to edit (follow the steps in this article).
Install prerequisites for requests:

Python
Node.js

pip install requests

npm install @short.io/client-node

Now everything is ready to run the following snippet. It will create a region targeting rule for a short URL.

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

Please, replace link_idString, API_KEY, FILE_NAME with an appropriate value.

Consider the following parameters:

Parameter name	Type	Constraints	Description
type	string	optional	File format: png, svg, pdf
color	number	optional	0xff0000
backgroundColor	number	optional	0xff0000
size	number	optional	6

Python
Node.js
Ruby

import requests

url = "https://api.short.io/links/qr/{link_idString}"

import json
payload = json.dumps({"type":"png"})
headers = {
    'accept': "application/json",
    'content-type': "application/json",
    'authorization': "API_KEY"
    }

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

open('FILE_NAME.png', 'wb').write(response.content)

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

setApiKey("API_KEY");

const result = await generateQrCode({
  path: { linkId: "link_idString" },
  body: { type: "png" }
});

console.log(result.data);

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

url = URI("https://api.short.io/links/qr/{link_idString}")

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"] = 'API_KEY'
request.body = JSON.generate({"type": "png"})

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

Launch the file.

Python
Node.js
Ruby

python filename.py

node filename.js

ruby filename.rb

Creating an QR code for a link​

Creating an QR code for a link