Shorten Urls
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gl.am API help

gl.am exposes some of its functionality via an Application Programming Interface (API).

RESTful Resources

The gl.am API attempts to conform to the design principles of Representational State Transfer (REST).

gl.am's API methods for the url shortener presently supports the following data formats: XML (xml), Json (json) and Plain text (plain)

Examples

GET Request

http://gl.am/API::shorten?type=plain&url=http://www.google.com/search?q=jack+bauer

Urlencode the url-parameter for accurate results

POST Request

Url: http://gl.am/API::shorten PostData: type: 'plain'; url: 'http://www.google.com/search?q=jack+bauer';

Result

http://gl.am/C5Ox4M