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The API provides a single operation to create a shortened URL by POSTing a long URL and optionally a desired custom alias; if the custom alias is omitted or already taken, a random five‑letter short code is generated.

URL Shorteners
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HTTPS
CORS: Yes
Description enriched …
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Latency

654ms p95

Uptime

100.0% 30d

Playground

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Endpoints

REST · JSON
POST

/addURL

Create a shortened URL

  • long (query, required) — The long URL to shorten
  • short (query) — Optional - The part after 1pt.co/ that will redirect to your long URL. If not provided or already taken, a random 5-letter string is returned

1 endpoint auto-detected

curl -X POST \
  "https://github.com/1pt-co/api/blob/main/README.md/addURL"

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