🔗 Unofficial Google URL Shortener (share.google & www.google.com)

Generate official Google shortened links instantly. The retirement of goo.gl made creating official Google short links impossible for the public. This Actor utilizes a secure, internal Google Search API gateway to generate official share.google short links for any URL.

Because these short links are hosted on Google's core domains, they possess maximum domain authority. This makes them virtually immune to SMS carrier blocking and email spam filters, drastically outperforming standard bit.ly or tinyurl links.

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🌟 Key Features

• Maximum Trust & Authority: Shortened links are hosted on share.google and www.google.com, ensuring maximum user trust and high click-through rates.
• Immunity to Spam Filters: Perfect for cold-email outreach, SMS text marketing campaigns, and social media links where third-party link shorteners are blacklisted.
• Dual-Routing Formats: For every URL shortened, the API returns the standard short link AND an alternative search-routed link (https://www.google.com/share.google?q={id}).
• Lightweight & High-Performance: Operates at edge speeds with latency measured in milliseconds.
• CORS-Enabled & Secure: Secured via custom X-Api-Key headers for seamless application programming.
• Health Monitoring: Includes /health status endpoints for seamless integration into uptime monitors.

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🛠️ How It Works

This Actor forwards your target long URL to a secure Cloudflare Worker edge reverse-proxy. The proxy constructs the internal Google search API payload, performs an authenticated fetch to Google's search service (GetShortenedKpSharingUrl), strips Google's anti-hijacking JSON prefix ()]}'\n), and extracts the unique short code ID.

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📥 Input Parameters

Field	Type	Description	Prefill Example
Target Long URL	string	The target long URL to shorten. Must start with http:// or https://	https://google.com

Input JSON Example

{
  "url": "https://google.com"
}

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📤 Output Data Structure

Tabular datasets output clean rows mapping the shortened status:

Output JSON Example

{
  "success": true,
  "original_url": "https://google.com",
  "shortened_url": "https://share.google/L5FVgIBfBwprSEq9u",
  "alternative_url": "https://www.google.com/share.google?q=L5FVgIBfBwprSEq9u",
  "id": "L5FVgIBfBwprSEq9u",
  "description": "Successfully shortened URL via official Google APIs."
}

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💳 Monetization & Cost

This Actor utilizes the Pay-Per-Event (PPE) pricing model on the Apify Store:

• Base Pricing: Only $10.00 per 1,000 successful lookups ($0.01 per event).
• Pay as You Go: If validation fails due to network/gateway issues, no billing charges occur.