API usage

API URL: http://qurl.org/api/url

Parameters (GET or POST)
• url The url to be shortened

JSON Response
• url (string) the shortened url (e.g. http://qurl.org/0)
• exists (boolean) true if the provided URL was already in the database
• error (string) error message if url could not be shortened (e.g. "Invalid URL")

API example

Submit:

http://qurl.org/api/url?url=http://fark.com

{"exists":true,"url":"http:\/\/qurl.org\/s"}

Submit:

http://qurl.org/api/url?url=http://klasjdlh.com

{"exists":false,"url":"http:\/\/qurl.org\/Z1q"}

Submit:

http://qurl.org/api/url?url=notaurl

{"error":"Not a valid URL."}