In Google documentation (https://developers.google.com/url-shortener/v1/getting_started), to use Google URL shortener, I should make a request as below:
POST https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url
Content-Type: application/json
{"longUrl": "http://www.google.com/"}
They also stated that I will have to authenticate:
"Every request your application sends to the Google URL Shortener API needs to identify your application to Google. There are two ways to identify your application: using an OAuth 2.0 token (which also authorizes the request) and/or using the application's API key."
I chose public API key as a method to authenticate: I create a public key for my iOS app. Then I use the following code to POST (AFNetworking, using Swift):
func getShortURL(longURL: String){
let manager = AFHTTPRequestOperationManager()
let params = [
"longUrl": longURL
]
manager.POST("https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url?key={my_key_inserted}", parameters: params, success: {
(operation: AFHTTPRequestOperation!,responseObject: AnyObject!) in
println("JSON: " + responseObject.description)
},
failure: { (operation: AFHTTPRequestOperation!,error: NSError!) in
println("Error while requesting shortened: " + error.localizedDescription)
})
}
However, I got the log: Error while requesting shortened: Request failed: bad request (400).
Please tell me how to fix it.