How to access short URl from Json object in c# - Bitly

Question

I am using Bitly api in Asp.net project to create short Url. I am getting result but it is in json format. How do I retrieve short Url from it?

[HttpGet("sendNotification/{PlanId}")]
        [ValidateModelState]
        public async Task<IActionResult> SendNotification()
        {
                var link ="https://chats.landbot.io";
                var shortUrl = await GetShortUrl(link);
              
                return NoContent();
            }
            
        }

shortUrl giving me everything as below

{"created_at":"2021-10-21T04:01:53+0000","id":"bit.ly/shortUrl","link":"LongUrl","archived":false,"tags":[],"deeplinks":[],"references":{"group":"https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v4"}}

In the above line, id contains the Short link and that's the only link I need. Can anyone tell me what I should do?

Can you share your `GetShortUrl`?What is the return type of it? — Yiyi You, Oct 22 '21 at 03:07

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 21 '21 at 05:11

Create class like below

public class Item
 {
    public string created_at;
    public string id;
    public string link;
  }

And in your method read json string like below code using newtonsoft json In items you will get the values.

Item items = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Item>(json);

Yiyi You · Accepted Answer · 2021-10-22T03:28:23.417

1.JObject:

{{"created_at":"2021-10-21T04:01:53+0000","id":"bit.ly/shortUrl","link":"LongUrl","archived":false,"tags":[],"deeplinks":[],"references":{"group":"https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v4"}}}

If you want to get idfrom JObject,you can use:

var id=jObject["id"].Tostring;

2.json string:

{\"created_at\":\"2021-10-21T04:01:53+0000\",\"id\":\"bit.ly/shortUrl\",\"link\":\"LongUrl\",\"archived\":false,\"tags\":[],\"deeplinks\":[],\"references\":{\"group\":\"https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v4\"}}

If you want to get id from json string,you can use:

var id=JObject.Parse(jsonString)["id"].Tostring;

How to access short URl from Json object in c# - Bitly

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