Dropshare supports a wide variation of custom URL shortener services. To set up a custom URL shortener, open the Preferences and select the Uploads tab.
Besides dsh.re (the free built-in shortener service), Dropshare for Mac supports setting up your very own URL shortener solution.
When choosing Custom (advanced), various parameters can be set up to configure a custom URL shortener.
| Endpoint | URL to your custom URL shortener or its API. The URL could look like: http://shorten.er/api/shorten-url |
| URL Parameter | HTTP Method (e.g. POST, GET) and name of the parameter which contains the long unshortened URL |
| Additional Parameters | Additional parameters (Query if GET, Body if POST) for the request |
| Auth. Parameter | Authentication Parameter Type (GET, POST, Header), name of the parameter (e.g. "Authentication"), and value (e.g. API Key) |
| Response Format | Type of response (JSON or Plaintext). If JSON, nested parameters can be accessed with dot-notation (e.g. data.shortUrl) |
When clicking Test, Dropshare will try to shorten a URL and see whether it parse the configured API response.
Debugging a custom URL shortener
In case Dropshare for Mac is unable to work with your custom URL shortener, please consult the logs. The app will verbosely log the response it got for its request, and most likely tell you why it couldn't parse the shortened URL out of it. Please submit a support request in case you need help debugging an error with custom URL shorteners. Please make sure to include all logs.
Compatible URL shorteners
Dropshare for Mac is compatible with several (open source) URL shorteners, including (but not limited to):
| dub.co | How to set up dub.co as URL shortener? |
| bit.ly | How to set up bit.ly as URL shortener? |
| Rebrandly | How to set up Rebrandly as URL shortener? |
| YOURLS.org |
Endpoint URL: http://shorten.er/yourls-api.php?username=<username>&password=<password>&action=shorturl&format=json |
| Shlink |
If you'd like to have better support for a custom URL shortener, please drop us a line.
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