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APIDocumentation
API Documentation for ur.ly Web ApplicationCreate a New ur.lyAll requests must be made using HTTP GET. The href parameter should be URL-encoded.
HTTP Status Codes
Lookup an ur.lyAll requests must be made using HTTP GET. The code parameter is 1-6 character alpha-numeric.
HTTP Status Codes
ur.ly Formatsur.ly records can be displayed in HTML, JSON and XML formats. Examples in JSON and XML formats:
{"code":"1","href":http://www.google.com/"}
<urly code="1" href="http://www.google.com/"/> |
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hi, have you considered providing the option to have custom codes, and editable? thanks. Petr Buben
There ought to be a way to report spam / fraud links, both on the main page and via API. Tough to prevent abuse, but possible. Email verification, require multiple complaints, etc.
POr is such a fraudulent link, signing you up for ringtone services.
With the prevalence of people hacking other people's AIM accounts and using them to send phishing or fraudulent links lately, I agree with the poster above. There should be a way to preview the link that you're about to visit, like bit.ly does. Otherwise, it's too easy to get scammed by a link that a friend supposedly sends you via IM (which almost happened to me this morning, and they used ur.ly to do it).
You can preview the link using the 'lookup an ur.ly' above. Adding .xml to the link will provide the actual url. Implement that into a program (or a firefox extension), and you're good to go.
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