Shorty

Simple link shortener

This project was created for training purposes to practice practical tasks and showcase my skills

Features

• Materialistic http rest api
  • Creating short links
  • View statistics on short link visits
  • Redirecting users to real url addresses

Build

Clone the repository and compile the application

# Clone repo
git clone https://github.com/need-o/shorty.git

#Build app
cd shorty
go build

Usage

You can use environment variables to change the default address to the database and the server address

# Export environment variables
export SHORTY_DB_PATH=shorty.db
export SHORTY_ADDRESS=:1323
export SHORTY_MIGRATIONS_SOURCE=file://migrations

# Run shorty
./shorty

Creating a short link

curl -d '{"url": "https://example.com" }' -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST http://localhost:1323/api/shorty

{
    "id":"sE5qwb",
    "address":"localhost:1323/sE5qwb"
}

Follow the short link

curl http://localhost:1323/sE5qwb -v

* processing: http://localhost:1323/sE5qwb
*   Trying [::1]:1323...
* Connected to localhost (::1) port 1323
> GET /sE5qwb HTTP/1.1
> Host: localhost:1323
> User-Agent: curl/8.2.1
> Accept: */*
> 
< HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
< Location: https://example.com
< X-Request-Id: vwdoUkuTzQAQ6d65lGwTOatPipViaiYM
< Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2023 14:14:41 GMT
< Content-Length: 0
< 
* Connection #0 to host localhost left intact

View visit statistics

curl http://localhost:1323/api/shorty/sE5qwb

{
    "id": "sE5qwb",
    "url": "https://example.com",
    "visits": [
        {
            "shorty_id": "sE5qwb",
            "referer": "",
            "user_ip": "127.0.0.1",
            "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/116.0",
            "created_at": "2023-08-28T14:56:47.898469006+03:00",
            "updated_at": "2023-08-28T14:56:47.898469006+03:00"
        }
    ],
    "created_at": "2023-08-28T14:23:31.413414468+03:00",
    "updated_at": "2023-08-28T14:23:31.413414468+03:00"
}

Testing

To run tests, use the default go test command:

go test ./...

License

Shorty released under GNU GPL license, refer LICENSE file.