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by Cafesolo 5689 days ago
Great idea. Congrats on the release!

A couple of suggestions:

- An API to generate shortened URLs automatically would be great.

- Some mechanism for supporting custom domain names.

Say, someone has a link shortener service with a decent amount of traffic. Both shrtn.co and the shortener owner would benefit greatly from an API/custom domain combo.

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There is currently a very basic api in place @ http://shrtn.co/api/*your-url*

Custom domain names are a great idea. Thanks for the feedback!

Awesome!

Is it possible to authenticate using my shrtn username? The current API generates links using shrtn's own affiliate codes.

We're currently working on a REST based API with authentication. Release should be in within the next two weeks.