Tly URL Shortener
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📚 Documentation & Examples
Everything you need to integrate with Tly URL Shortener
🚀 Quick Start Examples
// Tly URL Shortener API Example
const response = await fetch('https://t.ly/docs', {
method: 'GET',
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/json'
}
});
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);Introduction to https://t.ly/docs API
https://t.ly/docs is a public API website that provides developers with a wide range of features to shorten, expand and manage URLs. It provides two endpoints to shorten URLs programmatically, one using RESTful API and the other using JSON-RPC.
In this blog post, we will explore how to use this API making the requests in JavaScript with some possible examples.
Shortening a URL
To shorten a URL using https://t.ly/docs API, we need to send a POST request with a JSON payload to https://api.t.ly/v1/shorten. Here's an example:
const url = 'https://www.example.com'
const apiKey = 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE'
const form = new FormData();
form.append('url', url);
form.append('apiKey', apiKey);
fetch('https://api.t.ly/v1/shorten', {
method: 'POST',
body: form
})
.then(response => response.json())
.then(data => {
console.log(data)
})
.catch(error => {
console.error(error)
})
In the example above, we are using fetch to send a POST request to the https://api.t.ly/v1/shorten endpoint with the url and apiKey parameters in a FormData object. The response data is logged to the console.
You will need to replace YOUR_API_KEY_HERE with your actual API key.
Expanding a URL
To expand a URL, we need to send a GET request to https://api.t.ly/v1/expand/[SHORTENED_URL], where [SHORTENED_URL] is the shortened URL returned by the /shorten endpoint. Here's an example:
const shortenedUrl = 'https://t.ly/abcd123'
const apiKey = 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE'
fetch(`https://api.t.ly/v1/expand/${shortenedUrl}?apiKey=${apiKey}`)
.then(response => response.json())
.then(data => {
console.log(data)
})
.catch(error => {
console.error(error)
})
In the example above, we are using fetch to send a GET request to the https://api.t.ly/v1/expand/[SHORTENED_URL] endpoint with the shortenedUrl and apiKey parameters in the URL. The response data is logged to the console.
You will need to replace YOUR_API_KEY_HERE with your actual API key.
Conclusion
In this blog post, we took a look at how to use https://t.ly/docs API to shorten and expand URLs programmatically using JavaScript. The examples provided should give you a good starting point to integrate this API into your own projects.
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