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EPIC: Link Shortening #284

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nelsonic opened this issue Aug 27, 2022 · 2 comments
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EPIC: Link Shortening #284

nelsonic opened this issue Aug 27, 2022 · 2 comments
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As a person wanting to share links to items of content and shorten links to external resources,
I want to have an automatic link shortening service
that keeps link length to a minimum and has advanced tracking features.

Related to #279

Todo

  • Collect the required/desired features into this EPIC #HelpWanted 🙏
  • Read any examples of Open Source Link shorteners for inspiration 👀
  • Build an MVP link shortener App (Tutorial) 👩‍💻
  • Integrated it back into the App as we think it will be a "core" feature. 🔙

Required Features

  • Store url as Fields.UrlEncrypted to maintain privacy
  • Shorten the link to either a numeric (e.g: dwyl.co/123) or a base58 cid (e.g: dwyl.co/gVS)

Desirable Features

  • Crawl the url and get the page.title and check for any images.
  • If the url is to a GitHub page, attempt to "interpret" it using https://github.com/nelsonic/github-scraper to extract any relevant data. e.g: an issue will have a title, description, assignee, state and labels Parse an Issue nelsonic/github-scraper#103
  • Allow people to specify their desired short url e.g: dwyl.co/welcome
  • Or to pick their Twitter/GitHub username as the base of the link and then a numeric or alphanumeric sub
    e.g: dwyl.co/nelsonic/1 would be a directly link to my first item. This would 301 redirect to dwyl.com/items/1 (yes, in this case the actual URL is shorter than the "short" one ... but it's just for illustration)

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@nelsonic nelsonic added enhancement New feature or enhancement of existing functionality discuss Share your constructive thoughts on how to make progress with this issue priority-2 Second highest priority, should be worked on as soon as the Priority-1 issues are finished technical A technical issue that requires understanding of the code, infrastructure or dependencies epic A feature idea that is large enough to require a sprint (5 days) or more and has smaller sub-issues. needs-criteria needs-ui A feature idea that needs UI in order to be discussed/built. labels Aug 27, 2022
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A search on register.ly reveals the domain is not available:
https://my.register.ly/cart.php?a=add&domain=register&query=dw.ly
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Opened a separate issue for this: dwyl/linky#14

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