At the moment this API is only open for people developing services for Xavier Media.

To make a URL shorter via this API you need to send a request to api.2ve.org/api.php with the following parameters:
api = The unique API ID you got from Xavier Media
key = Your API key you got from Xavier Media
longlink = The link you want to make shorter
action = To make a link shorter you should set this to makeshorter
fileformat = Format of the response. You can select between xml or json (always lower case). If not provided or left blank xml will be used as the standard output.

The response you get back from the API will look something like this:


The shorter URL is found in the shortlink tag. The tag numcharshorter will tell you how much shorter your short link is then your long link , in this case 17 characters shorter.

Error messages

If something goes wrong with the API request for example if you miss-spell your API key you will get an error message with a response code other then 200.

The error message contains a message describing the problem and may look like this: