URL-Shortener

URL Shortener written in Golang using Redis

Installation

• Using docker-compose

$ git clone git@github.com:Pratikrocks/URL-Shortener.git
$ cd URL-Shortener
$ docker-compose up

# This will start the redis and the server container with
# server listening to port 8082 and redis listening to port 6379

API Usage

• To encode an url to a short url make a POST request /info endpoint with the url as the body.

$ curl --location --request POST 'localhost:8082/info' \                                  
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
"url": "https://leetcode.com/problemset/",
"expires": 1234
}'

url is the url to be encoded. expires is the time in seconds after which the url will expire. [TBD]

In the response you will get the short url hash code of length 5. For example, if the url is https://leetcode.com/problemset/ then the short url code corresponding to it might be gb2A1

• To decode a short url make a GET request to /view/{:url_hash} endpoint.
• Corresponding to this example to get redirected to the original url open any browser and make a GET request to /view/gb2A1 with full url endpoints as localhost:8082/view/gb2A1 which will get redirected to the original url.