Getting link info

The instructions below demonstrate how to get the information about a link: original URL, date of creation, domainID, mobile URLs, expiration, cloaking etc..

To get short link info

Create a secret API key from the Integrations and API menu: https://app.short.io/settings/integrations/api-key
Install prerequisites for requests (if necessary, depending on your programming language):

pip install requests

Using the code snippet below, create a file: filename.py/ .js/ .rb

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Please replace example.com , YOUR_PATH (the URL slug), APIKEY with the appropriate values.

import requests

url = "https://api.short.io/links/expand"

querystring = {"domain":"short.xyz","path":"first-blog-post"}

headers = {
    'accept': "application/json",
    'authorization': "<<apiKey>>"
    }

response = requests.request("GET", url, headers=headers, params=querystring)

print(response.text)

const url = 'https://api.short.io/links/expand?domain=<<domain_name>>&path=YOUR_PATH';
const options = {
  method: 'GET',
  headers: {accept: 'application/json', Authorization: '<<apiKey>>'}
};

fetch(url, options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(json => console.log(json))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

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

url = URI("https://api.short.io/links/expand?domain=short.xyz&path=first-blog-post")

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

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["accept"] = 'application/json'
request["authorization"] = '<<apiKey>>'

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

Launch the file:

python filename.py

node filename.js

ruby filename.rb

Review the JSON response:

{
  originalURL: 'YOUR_LONG_URL',
  path: 'YOUR_PATH',
  idString: 'LINK_ID',
  id: 'LINK_ID',
  shortURL: 'https://example.com/YOUR_PATH',
  secureShortURL: 'https://example.com/YOUR_PATH',
  cloaking: false,
  title: 'LINK_TITLE',
  tags: [],
  createdAt: '2025-05-08T08:56:34.967Z',
  skipQS: false,
  archived: false,
  DomainId: 115111,
  OwnerId: 141117,
  hasPassword: false
}