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Getting Clicks for Links per ID

Gets link clicks for link ids

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The instruction below shows how to get the number of clicks for links.

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 get detailed statistics.

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

3) Install prerequisites for requests.

pip install requests

npm install --save axios

Now everything is ready to run the following snippet. It will send the number of clicks for short URLs.

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

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Please, replace DOMAIN_ID and IDS with appropriate values.

import requests

url = "https://api-v2.short.io/statistics/domain/domainID/link_clicks"

querystring = {"ids":"293627801, 292673342"}

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

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

print(response.text)

const axios = require('axios');

axios.get('https://api-v2.short.io/statistics/domain/domainID/link_clicks', {
    params: {
        ids: '293627801, 292673342'
},
		headers: {
        accept:'*/*',
        authorization: '<<apiKey>>'
}
})
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(response.data);
})
.catch(function (response) {
  console.log(response);
});

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

url = URI("https://api-v2.short.io/statistics/domain/domainID/link_clicks?ids=293627801%2C%20292673342")

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"] = '*/*'
request["authorization"] = '<<apiKey>>'

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

5) Launch the file.

python filename.py

node filename.js

ruby filename.rb

6) JSON Response.

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

{ 
  '292673342': 0, '293627801': 1 
}

Updated over 1 year ago