On Jan, 10th 2011, Google finally announced their launch of the Google URL Shortener API. (The service begin back in September 2010, but had no API.)
The Official Announcement from Google:
http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/01/google-url-shortener-gets-api.html
The Google URL Shortener which is located at http://goo.gl is a service that takes long URLs and squeezes them into fewer characters to make a link that is easier to share, tweet, or email to friends (or FOAF).
You can use the Google URL Shortener API to: store, share, and manage goo.gl short URLs from anywhere on the Internet.
How to use the Google Shortener API
Getting Started Guide
Authentication
Authentication and Authorization for Google APIs - definitive guide
Provide an auth token of type...
- OAuth Scope URL = https://www.googleapis.com/auth/urlshortener
- ClientLogin Service = service=urlshortener
Code Reference
Detailed technical reference of the collections, resources, methods, and authentication requirements for the API.
| url.insert | POST /url?key={key} |
| url.get | GET /url?key={key}&shortUrl={shortUrl}&projection={projection?} |
| url.list | GET /url/history?key={key}&start-token={startToken?}&projection={projection?} |
