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google-apis-explorergoogle-url-shortener
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Reputation: 101

500 Internal Errors using Google's URL shortener service API

I'm trying to complete the JavaScript track on Codecademy, which requires an api key to access Google's URL shortener service. When I try to shorten, whether there or even when using the API's explorer page, I get errors.

POST https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url?key={YOUR_API_KEY}
{
 "longUrl": "https://freecodecamp.org"
}


500 Internal Server Error

cache-control:  private, max-age=0
content-encoding:  gzip
content-length:  122
content-type:  application/json; charset=UTF-8
date:  Tue, 02 Jan 2018 18:13:54 GMT
expires:  Tue, 02 Jan 2018 18:13:54 GMT
server:  GSE
vary:  Origin, X-Origin



{
 "error": {
  "errors": [
   {
    "domain": "global",
    "reason": "backendError",
    "message": "Backend Error"
   }
  ],
  "code": 500,
  "message": "Backend Error"
 }
}

Upvotes: -1

Views: 999

Answers (1)

Oren Agiv
Oren Agiv

Reputation: 151

Yeah... we're getting that too... I believe Google Shortening service is currently down...

Upvotes: 0

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