goshort

Description

goshort is URL Shortener that supports custom URL Schemes.

See API description below.

Build

• Install dep https://github.com/golang/dep#installation
• Get dependencies

dep ensure 

• Build binary

go build -o goshort

Usage

Usage of goshort:
  -dbbucket bucket
        DB bucket name (default "goshort")
  -dbpath string
        Path to the database file (default "goshort.db")
  -listen string
        Listen interface (default "127.0.0.1:8080")
  -salt string
        Hash salt string (default "tFZ2cQ7U8OQlSWOyZIoFdRusvkFvJh3A")
  -scheme string
        URL scheme http or https (default "http")

API

Request body format: { "url": "http://exmple.com" }

Operations

Endpoint	Method	Description
/{id}	GET	Will redirect you to the corresponding Long URL with 301 code.
/v1/short	POST	Will return short URL in the response body.

Examples

Short request

$ curl -d'{"url":"https://google.com"}' -XPOST http://s.shov.cloud/v1/short
{"shortURL":"http://s.shov.cloud/xqJW9dZ"}

Redirect

$ curl http://s.shov.cloud/xqJW9dZ
<a href="https://google.com">Moved Permanently</a>.