{ "get": { "operationId": "shortenUrl", "tags": [ "Short URLs" ], "summary": "Create a short URL", "description": "Creates a short URL in a single API call. Useful for third party integrations.

**Important note**: Before shlink v1.13, this endpoint used to use the `/short-codes` path instead of `/short-urls`. Both of them will keep working, while the first one is considered deprecated.", "parameters": [ { "$ref": "../parameters/version.json" }, { "name": "apiKey", "in": "query", "description": "The API key used to authenticate the request", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" } }, { "name": "longUrl", "in": "query", "description": "The URL to be shortened", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" } }, { "name": "format", "in": "query", "description": "The format in which you want the response to be returned. You can also use the \"Accept\" header instead of this", "required": false, "schema": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "txt", "json" ] } } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "The list of short URLs", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "../definitions/ShortUrl.json" } }, "text/plain": { "schema": { "type": "string" } } }, "examples": { "application/json": { "longUrl": "https://github.com/shlinkio/shlink", "shortUrl": "https://doma.in/abc123", "shortCode": "abc123", "dateCreated": "2016-08-21T20:34:16+02:00", "visitsCount": 0, "tags": [ "games", "tech" ], "meta": { "validSince": "2017-01-21T00:00:00+02:00", "validUntil": null, "maxVisits": 100 } }, "text/plain": "https://doma.in/abc123" } }, "400": { "description": "The long URL was not provided or is invalid.", "content": { "application/problem+json": { "schema": { "$ref": "../definitions/Error.json" } }, "text/plain": { "schema": { "type": "string" } } }, "examples": { "application/problem+json": { "title": "Invalid URL", "type": "INVALID_URL", "detail": "Provided URL foo is invalid. Try with a different one.", "status": 400, "url": "https://invalid-url.com" }, "text/plain": "INVALID_URL" } }, "500": { "description": "Unexpected error.", "content": { "application/problem+json": { "schema": { "$ref": "../definitions/Error.json" } }, "text/plain": { "schema": { "type": "string" } } }, "examples": { "application/problem+json": { "error": "INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR", "message": "Unexpected error occurred" }, "text/plain": "INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR" } } } } }