Li(ttle)URL.cn

As I’m keen to see more use of LiURL.cn, I do keep an eye on logs to see who’s linking to us.

Johan Sundström over at userscripts.org has written a php short url services expansion script which includes LiURL.cn.

The script is here:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/46822

http://longurl.org has also added support for expanding url’s. Thanks Sean!

Also, a warm thanks/谢谢 to all our users out there also in twitterland.

We also have a twitter id for those that want to follow us for the occasional tweet. – http://www.twitter.com/liurl

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We actually have an API for the LiURL site, although I haven’t really documented it that well as of yet.  As we’re a brand new site, we’re busy building in functionality, so this will get expanded in further posts as we add features.

To get a Shortened URL (aka Little URL) , the call is this:

http://liurl.cn/api-create.php?url=

Which returns the short URL. If you’ve been naughty and haven’t passed a valid URL, then it will return you a big fat -1 for your efforts.

Strangely enough, we also have the diametrically opposite call of that, which (suprise suprise)  gives you a long URL from a shortened one

http://liurl.cn/api-create.php?tinyurl=

This also returns a -1 failure if the URL isn’t one we know about.

Some sample PHP code after the break

虽然我目前仍未正式书面记录，不过在LiURL网站 我们已经使用了API。由于我们是新建的品牌网站，目前我们正忙于建设网站的功能性。所以这部分我们将在以后增加网站新特性时候加以扩充。

如果需要缩短后的链接 如下所示

http://liurl.cn/api-create.php?url=

它将返回缩短后的链接。如果您没有通过正规的链接那么将会出现大大的 -1错误提示。

奇怪的是，我们也遇到了完全相反的情况，有时它会从短链接提供一个长链接（非常奇怪）。

http://liurl.cn/api-create.php?tinyurl=

如果链接不正确 它同样也会出现 -1 错误提示。

以下是一些错误后的PHP编码样本。

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