gistfile1.sh

You can use either http://vurl-staging.heroku.com or http://vurl.me for the server name.

veez ~ $ curl --data vurl[url]=http%3A%2F%2Fthing.com http://vurl-staging.heroku.com/vurls.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<vurl>
  <clicks-count type="integer">0</clicks-count>
  <created-at type="datetime">2009-08-18T19:17:26-04:00</created-at>
  <description></description>
  <id type="integer">18</id>
  <ip-address>127.0.0.1</ip-address>
  <keywords>sue herber, miniature, miniatures, dollhouse, doll house</keywords>
  <slug>AR</slug>
  <title>Welcome to Thing.com</title>
  <updated-at type="datetime">2009-08-18T19:17:26-04:00</updated-at>
  <url>http://thing.com</url>
  <user-id type="integer">26</user-id>
</vurl>

The ID returned is 18.  We can look up the vurl this way:

veez ~ $ curl http://vurl-staging.heroku.com/vurls/18.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<vurl>
  <clicks-count type="integer">0</clicks-count>
  <created-at type="datetime">2009-08-18T19:17:26-04:00</created-at>
  <description></description>
  <id type="integer">18</id>
  <ip-address>127.0.0.1</ip-address>
  <keywords>sue herber, miniature, miniatures, dollhouse, doll house</keywords>
  <slug>AR</slug>
  <title>Welcome to Thing.com</title>
  <updated-at type="datetime">2009-08-18T19:17:26-04:00</updated-at>
  <url>http://thing.com</url>
  <user-id type="integer">26</user-id>
</vurl>