Golang URL Minifier v0.0.2

Check it out at https://r8r.org

A URL minifier written in Go.

• Enter long URL
• Receive small URL
• Magic?

You can also:

• Use the API to integrate your apps

Tech

Golang URL Minifier relies on open source projects to work properly:

• pq - A pure Go postgres driver for Go's database/sql package
• Twitter Bootstrap - For quick UI creation
• jQuery - Because Stackoverflow said I had to?

And of course Golang URL Minifier itself is open source with a public repository on GitHub.

Installation

Golang URL Minifier requires pq to run.

$ go get github.com/lib/pq

API Usage

Limited to 10 requests per hour per IP address

Example Request (via POST only):

curl --request POST 'https://r8r.org/generate/' --data "url=http://www.golang.org"

Example JSON Response:

{
	"url": "https://r8r.org/dvHhd"
	"error": ""
}

Todos

• Admin dashboard
• User accounts to remove throttle
• Traffic analytics (Update: stats now exists, lots of work to do here!)
• ???
• Profit!

License

Unlicense. For more information, please refer to http://unlicense.org/

Free Software, Hell Yeah!