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Creating a rule for region targeting

This method creates a new region targeting rule for given link

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The instruction below shows how to create a rule for region targeting for the existing URL.

1) Get your API key here: https://app.short.io/settings/integrations/api-key

  • Click "Create API key".
  • Add a Secret key.

2) Copy an ID of a short link you want to edit.

  • Open the statistics of the short link.
  • Copy the link ID.

3) ISO codes.

To create region targeting, you need to specify country ISO code and country region code in ISO-3166-2 format. Example: US (country) - United States; NY (region) - New York. You can find a necessary ISO code here: http://www.geonames.org

4) Install prerequisites for requests.

pip install requests

npm install --save axios

Now everything is ready to run the following snippet. It will create a region targeting rule for a short URL.

5) Create a file: filename.py/ .js/ .rb. Use the code snippet below.

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Please, replace link_idString, and YOUR_ORIGINAL_URL with appropriate values.

import requests

url = "https://api.short.io/link_region/link_idString"

import json
payload = json.dumps({"country":"US","region":"NY","originalURL":"YOUR_ORIGINAL_URL"})
headers = {
    'accept': "application/json",
    'content-type': "application/json",
    'authorization': "<<apiKey>>"
    }

response = requests.request("POST", url, data=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const axios = require('axios');

const data = {
    "country":"US",
    "region":"NY",
    "originalURL":"YOUR_ORIGINAL_URL"
};

const options = {
  headers: {
    accept: 'application/json',
    'content-type': 'application/json',
    authorization: '<<apiKey>>'
  }
};

axios.post('https://api.short.io/link_region/LINK_ID', data, options)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(response.data);
})
.catch(function (response) {
  console.log(response);
});

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'openssl'
require 'json'

url = URI("https://api.short.io/link_region/LINK_ID")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["accept"] = 'application/json'
request["content-type"] = 'application/json'
request["authorization"] = '<<apiKey>>'
request.body = JSON.generate({"country":"US","region":"NY","originalURL":"YOUR_ORIGINAL_URL"})

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

6) Launch the file.

python filename.py

node filename.js

ruby filename.rb

7) JSON Response (region targeting is created).

Once you run the code, you will see the response. 

{
  id: 287,
  link_idString: "lnk_49n_UcbN6",
  country: 'US',
  region: 'NY',
  originalURL: 'YOUR_ORIGINAL_URL',
  updatedAt: '2020-04-16T11:09:00.915Z',
  createdAt: '2020-04-16T11:09:00.915Z',
  name: 'New York'
}

Updated over 1 year ago