URL Shortener

This is a simple URL shortener API built using Go and Gin framework. It uses GORM as the ORM and a SQLite database to store the shortened URLs.

Running the API using Docker

Prerequisites

• Docker

Steps

1. Clone the repository and navigate to the project directory.

   git clone https://github.com/C-m3-Codin/url_shortner.git
   cd url_shortner

2. Build the Docker image using the provided Dockerfile.

   docker build -t url-shortener .

3. Run the Docker container using the provided docker-compose.yml file.

   docker-compose up -d

Usage

The API provides three endpoints:

• POST /user/register - Registers a new user.
• POST /token - Generates an auth token.
• POST /create - Creates a new shortened URL.
• GET /:shortenedUrl - Redirects to the original URL associated with the given shortened URL.

POST /user/register

To register a new user, send a JSON POST request to the /user/register endpoint with the following format:

{
  "name":"Cyril",
  "username":"c1337_2",
  "email":"c@c_2.com",
  "password":"password@123"
}

POST /sec/create

To create a new shortened URL, send a JSON POST request to the /create endpoint with the following format:

{
  "original_url": "https://www.google.com"
}

GET /:shortenedUrl

To redirect to the original URL associated with a shortened URL, send a GET request to the /:shortenedUrl endpoint with the shortened URL as a parameter. For example, if the shortened URL is abc123, the request URL would be http://localhost:8000/abc123.

Code Overview

The main Go code is contained in main.go. It creates a database connection and defines the endpoints for the API.

The services package contains the code for creating the database connection.

The ShortLink struct represents a shortened URL and is defined in main.go. The generateShortenedURL function generates a random 8-character string to use as the shortened URL.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.