QR Code Generator

API Documentation

Parameter	Details	Values
`q`	Text to encode (URL-encoded string)	string/text
`type`	Output format	svg, utf8

Example

https://api.qr.hiiruki.dev/?q=Hello+World

The output format is default to svg if detected browser user agent, otherwise utf8.
If used svg, a QR code of SVG format would be served with proper Content-Type header set.
If used utf8, a QR code formatted with UTF-8 characters would be generated.

CLI Usage

You can use this web service from your terminal with curl command.

Print the QR code in terminal

Print the QR code in terminal. Because it use curl, so the output is UTF-8 because the user agent settings.

curl -sL "https://api.qr.hiiruki.dev/?q=Hello+World"

Save the QR code as a file

You can specify the output format with type parameter. Which support svg & utf8 format. Then you can save the output to a file with -o option of curl.

Save as SVG file:

curl -sL "https://api.qr.hiiruki.dev/?q=Hello+World&type=svg" -o qr.svg

Save as TXT file:

curl -sL "https://api.qr.hiiruki.dev/?q=Hello+World" -o qr.txt