xit.co.za

xit.co.za API

xit.co.za has a similar API to most URL shortening services that currently exist. In addition, xit.co.za provides some extra output options when using the API.

The xit.co.za API is GET-driven, and all API calls start with http://xit.co.za/url/create, and have an optional output modifier.

• Web output

  Doing an API call with the /web modifier will create the shortened URL and redirect the browser to the preview page for the shortened URL.

  Example

  http://xit.co.za/url/create/web?url=http%3A%2F%2Fxit.co.za%2F
  will redirect to:
  

  http://xit.co.za/1/p

• Text output

  Doing an API call with no modifier will create the shortened URL and merely output the shortened URL as text.

  Example

  http://xit.co.za/url/create?url=http%3A%2F%2Fxit.co.za%2F
  will output:
  

  http://xit.co.za/1

• XML output

  Doing an API call with the /xml modifier will create the shortened URL and return XML.

  Example

  http://xit.co.za/url/create/xml?url=http%3A%2F%2Fxit.co.za%2F
  will output:
  

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <urlset>
  	<url>http://xit.co.za/1</url>
  </urlset>
  

• JSON output

  Doing an API call with the /json modifier will create the shortened URL and return JSON.

  Example

  http://xit.co.za/url/create/json?url=http%3A%2F%2Fxit.co.za%2F
  will return:
  

  {"urlset":{"url":"http:\/\/xit.co.za\/1"}}

  with an application/json content-type response header.

• Twitter redirect

  Doing an API call with the /twitter modifier, currently used in the easy TwiXit! bookmarklet, will auto-redirect the browser to the user's Twitter webpage with the shortened URL already filled in the status update for easy editing and tweeting.

  Example

  http://xit.co.za/url/create/twitter?url=http%3A%2F%2Fxit.co.za%2F
  will redirect to:
  

  http://twitter.com/home?status=http%3A%2F%2Fxit.co.za%2F1

  which allows the user to edit the status update before tweeting it.