micURL

API

micURL is a free web service created by YouAre that provides shorter urls that automatically redirect to another website with a longer url. That short url will not break in emails and will never expire.

micURL API is based on GET commands.

The number of requests has been limited to 20 requests from the same IP each minute, except for youare.com where no restrictions apply.

Method
http://micurl.com/api.php?url=xxxxxxx

Where xxxxxxx stands for the URL you want to micurl.

Results are more efficient if the URL is passed encoded.

• for PHP
• for Javascript

Possible Answers

1. Wrong URL - (API returns 1)
2. Request Limit reached - (API returns 2)
3. micurlvalue (Value for the URL in micurl. Example: http://micurl.com/micurlvalue) - API returns chars

Contact

If you have some questions, or need the requests to be increased for a certain service. Please, let us know at
use {at} youare {dot} com.

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