Public API

The WIMBIS Application Programming Interface (API) has been created to let users and partners interact programmatically with WIMBIS. The API returns data in a form that can be easily integrated into an application or a web site. While the API is available to everyone free of charge, its use is subject to acceptance of our API License Agreement.

Using the API

The API accepts POST and GET requests and provides a response in XML format.

The Wimbis API is extremely easy to use as only one single parameter (u) is needed which houses the long URL which you want Wimbis to make shorter.

The following is the format of the request sent to the Wimbis Api :

http://wimbis.com/api.aspx?u=LONG_URL_GOES_HERE

Wimbis will then Wimbisize the URL provided in the U parameter and return a response in XML, using the following format :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<wimbis id="12">

<originalurl size="26">http://www.verylongurl.com</originalurl>
<newurl size="21">http://wimbis.com/?81</newurl>
<prevnewurl>http://wimbis.com/?p81</prevnewurl>
<errormsg></errormsg>

</wimbis>

Description :

Wimbis ID : Returns the number of the Wimbis Request ID
originalurl : contains the original long url as well as its original size
newurl : Wimbisized URL and its new size. This is the new and shortened URL
prevnewurl : Wimbisized URL with preview option
errormsg : displays any errors thrown during the processing of the request

And That's It!

Commercial Use

Want to use the WIMBIS API for commercial purposes? Contact us at admin@xigla.com. Please provide as much detail as you can about your proposed application and how you would like the business relationship with WIMBIS.COM to work. We will review your proposal and get back to you as soon as we can if there is interest in discussing a commercial license for your application