I want to shorten a longLink with firebase and the REST API but I get the following response and I don't know what is wrong:
Response:
{
"error": {
"code": 400,
"message": "Long link is not parsable: https://www.google.de [https://firebase.google.com/docs/dynamic-links/rest#create_a_short_link_from_parameters]",
"status": "INVALID_ARGUMENT"
}
}
And this is how I do it:
The Request: https://firebasedynamiclinks.googleapis.com/v1/shortLinks?key=(hereismyapikey)
the Body lookes like this:
{
"longDynamicLink": "https://www.google.de",
"suffix": {
"option": "SHORT"
}
}
I tried first with the real URL I want to shorten. Same error. Than with google and with and without the http(s). I'm out of options and hope somebody sees what I did wrong here.
EDIT: Full Postman request:
"item": [
{
"name": "shortLinks",
"request": {
"method": "POST",
"header": [
{
"key": "Content-Type",
"value": "application/json"
}
],
"body": {
"mode": "raw",
"raw": "{\r\n \"longDynamicLink\": \"www.google.de\",\r\n \"suffix\": {\r\n \"option\": \"SHORT\"\r\n }\r\n}"
},
"url": {
"raw": "https://firebasedynamiclinks.googleapis.com/v1/shortLinks?key=xxx",
"protocol": "https",
"host": [
"firebasedynamiclinks",
"googleapis",
"com"
],
"path": [
"v1",
"shortLinks"
],
"query": [
{
"key": "key",
"value": "xxx"
}
]
}
},
"response": []
}
]
You are using the simple method for creating dynamic link which is roughly equals to the manual creation of dynamic link : https://firebase.google.com/docs/dynamic-links/create-manually
In the docs if you see the link passed in example carefully you will see the pattern as below:
https://your_subdomain.page.link/?link=your_deep_link&apn=package_name[&amv=minimum_version][&afl=fallback_link]
So you should format the input link according to this or create using the parameters which has very good breakdown of parameters in json:
https://firebase.google.com/docs/dynamic-links/rest#create_a_short_link_from_parameters
Here is the api reference for firebase dynamic link creation from parameters:
https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/dynamic-links/link-shortener#parameters