API

L.MD offers a powerful API to interact with other sites.

Endpoints:

GET requests: http://l.md/api/get
POST requets: http://l.md/api/post

Variables:

You can pass up to three variables to control the response or your application.

url: The url you want to shrink. required.
custom: Custom name. optional.
type: Response type (json|xml). optional, default: json.

Example:

http://l.md/api/get?url=http://youtube.com&custom=mycustomname&type=xml

XML Response example:

    <response>
        <success>1</success>
            <data>
                <id>mycustomname</id>
                <url>http://l.md/mycustomname</url>
                <full>http://youtube.com</full>
                <hits>0</hits>
                <status>custom_new</status>
                <via>api</via>
                <date>1330715001</date>
                <last>1330719941</last>
            </data>
    </response>

Tags:

success: (true|false) for request success.
data:
- id: Unique identifier of url.
- url: Shortened url.
- full: Full url before shortened.
- hits: Number of hits to the link.
- status: Status of the url: new, old, new_custom and old_custom.
- via: From where was create the link: web,api or bookmarlet.
- date: Timestamp where the url was make.
- last: Timestamp for the las click.

XML Error example:

    <response>
        <success>0</success>
            <error>
                <code>0</code>
                <msg>domain not allowed</msg>
            </error>
    </response>