You can use this PHP code snippet to create short URL from your website: <?php // function to create short url using cURL function createShortURL($long_url, $keyword = '') { $api_url = 'http://rupom.net/create-url.php'; // API url // Init the CURL session $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $api_url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); // No header in the result curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); // Return, do not echo result curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); // This is a POST request curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array( // Data to POST 'url' => $long_url, 'keyword' => $keyword )); // Fetch and return content $data = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); // Do something with the result. Here, we just return it. if(!empty($data) && strpos($data, 'rupom.net/')) { return $data; } else { return $long_url; } } // set inputs $long_url = 'http://rupom.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/i-have-been-a-proud-father-found-meaning-of-life/'; $keyword = 'fatherhood'; // call the function $short_url = createShortURL($long_url, $keyword); // print the output echo "Long URL: $long_url<br>"; echo "Short URL: $short_url"; ?>