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Here you will find very heplful information about creating your own URL shortening service using url2mini.

There are number of ways to consume what u2m.me offers to you. Either you can use our web services in your application to use our shortening service or you can just use our API page to get help about what you need.


Web Services

Please refer to the following pages in order to get information about our web services.

u2m.me Web Service Reference
Creating and Accessing Web Services

You can also see our sample web service page here and download an ASP.NET example of showing how to consume these web services...

u2m.me web service ASP.NET sample code!



API (Application Programming Interface)

Another way of using u2m.me URL shortening service is using our API page. Our API page is located at,

http://u2m.me/Api.aspx

You can use this page either getting about the redirection URL of a shortened URL or or either to shorten a long URL.

There are two parameters of this page:

1. minipart
This is a mini URL part just generated by u2m.me service. Use this parameter in order to learn which URL this mini part redirects user.

2. url
Just use this parameter in order to shorten the specified URL.

and that's it...



Example 1, Use below link to get information about the real URL shortened as 'b0'
http://u2m.me/api.aspx?minipart=b0

Example 2, Use below link to shorten URL 'http://www.alnavera.com/www/about/defult.asp?p=3434&p=none'
http://u2m.me/api.aspx?url=http://www.alnavera.com/www/about/defult.asp?p=3434&p=none



Browser Extensions

Firefox  - Click here to add U2M Extension to your Firefox!

You can use our Firefox u2m extension to create easily shortened URLs. Just right click on any link on the page and then shorten the link quickly.

You can then post or share the shortened link on facebook, twitter, buzz, reddit, digg, stumbleupon and myspace or just copy it to the clipboard or send it via email...

This extension automatically finds shortened links using u2m.me service on the page and provides helpful information about the link such as redirected URL of the shortened one. You can also previes the shortened URL and see where it is redirected...Please see the screenshots below...

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