Google API - URL Shortener with PHP

Question

My code is below. The URL shortening service works, but it doesn\'t when I insert my $POST. Does anyone know how to fix this my looking at the code?

Answer 1

You have a key, but you are not using it correctly

You should append it to the url, don't send the key in the post

https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url?key='.$apiKey

Please check https://developers.google.com/url-shortener/v1/url/insert

Answer 2

Try with this code. I is working for me.

$api_key = 'YOUR_KEY';
$request_data = array(
    'longUrl' => 'YOUR_LONG_URL'
);

$curl_obj = curl_init(sprintf('%s/url?key=%s', 'https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1', $api_key));
curl_setopt($curl_obj, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl_obj, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($curl_obj, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-type: application/json'));
curl_setopt($curl_obj, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($request_data));
curl_setopt($curl_obj, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($curl_obj, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);

$response = curl_exec($curl_obj);
$json = json_decode($response);
curl_close($curl_obj);

var_dump($json);
die();