diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 5966153..c252504 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 .gitattributes export-ignore
 .gitignore export-ignore
+README.md export-ignore
diff --git a/pbincli/__init__.py b/pbincli/__init__.py
index cdc0096..831f5c6 100644
--- a/pbincli/__init__.py
+++ b/pbincli/__init__.py
@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
 __author__ = "R4SAS <r4sas@i2pmail.org>"
-__version__ = "0.2.2b1"
+__version__ = "0.3.0"
 __copyright__ = "Copyright (c) R4SAS"
 __license__ = "MIT"
diff --git a/pbincli/api.py b/pbincli/api.py
index 3b4bf41..fe76d77 100644
--- a/pbincli/api.py
+++ b/pbincli/api.py
@@ -98,8 +98,19 @@ class Shortener:
     def _yourls_init(self, settings):
         if not settings['short_url']:
             PBinCLIError("YOURLS: An API URL is required")
-        self.apiurl = settings['short_url']
 
+        # setting API URL
+        apiurl = settings['short_url']
+        if apiurl.endswith('/yourls-api.php'):
+            self.apiurl = apiurl
+        elif apiurl.endswith('/'):
+            self.apiurl = apiurl + 'yourls-api.php'
+        else:
+            PBinCLIError("YOURLS: Incorrect URL is provided.\n" +
+                "It must contain full address to 'yourls-api.php' script (like https://example.com/yourls-api.php)\n" +
+                "or just contain instance URL with '/' at the end (like https://example.com/)")
+
+        # validating for required credentials
         if settings['short_user'] and settings['short_pass'] and settings['short_token'] is None:
             self.auth_args = {'username': settings['short_user'], 'password': settings['short_pass']}
         elif settings['short_user'] is None and settings['short_pass'] is None and settings['short_token']: