How to use and check the report of a short URL?

To achieve it, just follow the below steps or watch this video-

Enable the Short URL feature for your account

1. Login MSG91 panel -> Click on Short URL section

- In the  Settings section, you will get a toggle button where you can enable or disable the Short URL service.

The message received on the handset will look like this.

You can use Short URL explicitly in two ways-

a. In API

- Start passing short_url=1 as an additional parameter in your API call.

- It will work with all the versions of API.

Creating Short URL

In the URL section, you will get all the URLs with created date, expiry (if any), and their short IDs. You can edit the expiry time by using the edit/action button.

Also, a new URL can be created manually with Create New button. You just have to add your Long URL and its Expiry time and click Save.

Limitations (The URL will only be replaced if)

The length of URL with hostname > 9 & URL without hostname > 5.

For example:

URL: http://testdevu.mywire.org/welcome/

URL with hostname: testdevu.mywire.org/welcome/

URL without hostname: /welcome/

Auto-convert short URLs will not work for "cutt.ly", "t.ly", "bit.ly", "bl.ink", "rb.gy", "bit.do", "is.gd", "ow.ly"

How this will help you? 

This helps with CTA whitelisting on DLT. As per TRAI guidelines, if you're using a Redirection URL in your SMS, you must use a Short URL, and your header should be included in that URL.

To use the URL shortener, whitelist the domain https://m.9m.io/ with all your headers on your DLT portal.

Example: If your header is ABCDEF, whitelist https://m.9m.io/ABCDEF on the DLT portal.

Happy messaging!