1 Point URL Shortener

Impact

1pt is a URL shortening service and hosts over 15,000+ redirects with 200,000+ visits

🛈 info.1pt.co

One of the biggest concerns that come with URL shortening is the fact that anyone can hide or mask their URL. Users can create shortened URLs that point to malicious or inappropriate sites, and the person receiving that URL won't realize it until they've clicked it and already been redirected to the harmful website. With this feature, however, anyone will be able to prepend info. to any 1pt.co URL to see the URL metadata before being redirected.

Check out 1pt-co/info.1pt.co

Backend

The redirects are stored in a MySQL Database and the API is written in PHP

🖥️ API

The 1pt.co API is public so anyone can create a shortened URL

Endpoint: https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~phthakka/1pt-express

Warning

The old endpoint (csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~phthakka/1pt) is still live but will soon be deprecated.

/addURL

Method: POST

Parameter	Description	Example
long	Required - The long URL to shorten	https://www.param.me
short	Optional - The part after 1pt.co/ that will redirect to your long URL. If this paramter is not provided or the requested short URL is already taken, it will return a random 5-letter string	param

Example Response

{
  "status": 201,
  "message": "Added!",
  "short": "param",
  "long": "https://www.param.me"
}

With this example 1pt.co/param will redirect to https://www.param.me

Note

If the requested short is taken, it will return a random 5-letter string along with the flag receivedRequestedShort: false

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This project is maintained by Param Thakkar