{"id":473078,"date":"2026-05-10T21:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T21:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/what-is-a-url-shortener-and-how-does-it-work-tinyurl\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T21:21:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T21:21:00","slug":"what-is-a-url-shortener-and-how-does-it-work-tinyurl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/what-is-a-url-shortener-and-how-does-it-work-tinyurl\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is a URL Shortener and How Does It Work? &#8211; TinyURL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Essentially, a URL shortener acts as a middleman between your long URL and a much shorter one that is easier to work with. When you use a URL shortener, it generates a brief alias or shortcut that still directs users to your intended destination, just like the original URL would.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/blog\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-url-shorteners\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/blog\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-url-shorteners\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Essentially, a URL shortener acts as a middleman between your long URL and a much shorter one that is easier to work with. When you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zurich","wpcat-8-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}