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Shared URL Information via API

You can retrieve information about URLS that have been shared on sportsa.com - these are great for share button counters on your own website.

Retrieve JSON formatted data by submitting to https://api.sportsa.com/url/?url=[URL]

{
   "status":"ok",
   "url":"youtu.be\/bhb3br6kpim",
   "out":"153",
   "in":"15",
   "lastupdated":"2018-12-26 00:27:21 UTC",
   "version":"1.0"
}

What information is returned?

status	ok:not listed:bad url:banned	Determines the status of the URL on the platform. OK: The URL is listed, statistics are available NOT LISTED: The URL is not active, no statistics available BAD URL: The URL is in an invalid format BANNED: The URL has been banned from our platform and cannot be shared or visited
url	string	The escaped URL submitted (https, http and trailing slashes are removed)
out	bigint	How many times the URL has been clicked through from the platform and out to the website
in	bigint	How many times the URL has been shared by users
last updated	YEAR-MONTH-DAY HOURS:MINUTES:SECONDS TIMEZONE	The date & time of the last activity (when it was shared or last clicked through) for the URL - timezone of UTC+0
version	decimal	The version of the API