shawty

Shawty: URL Shortener

This service encodes URLs using Hashids

It has 3 features:

Encode

curl -XPOST localhost:8080/encode --data "url=http://dillbuck.com"

>>> pnel5aK

NOTE: url must include the full url, http://etc...

Decode

curl localhost:8080/decode/pnel5aK

>>> http://dillbuck.com

Redirect

curl localhost:8080/pnel5aK

>>>  301 -> http://dillbuck.com

Getting started

Docker

docker run -v <host path>:/data -e "SHAWTY_STORAGE_PATH=/data" -e "SHAWTY_HASH_SALT=<salt>" -d -p 8080:8080 gimanzo/shawty

Old School way:

go get github.com/gimanzo/shawty

export SHAWTY_STORAGE_PATH=<your local storage path>
export SHAWTY_SALT=<your salt>
//optional
export GOOGLE_TRACKER_ID=<your google analytics trackingid>

go build
./shawty

Building the docker file

docker build -t gimanzo/shawty .

Can I use it in production?

You need to implement a storage that can scale beyond one application server.