Custom URL-shortener

Short Description

A RESTful web service build on top of Redis and Go.

Start a service

docker-compose up

Usage

Endcode link

POST to http://localhost:8080/encode/

Description:

A handler that encodes your link into number with base 62 and length 10.

Request:
type json

{
  "url": "https://codex.so/link-shortener",
  "expires": "2021-10-10 11:11:11"
}

Response:
type json

{
  "shortUrl": "https://localhost:8080/xxxxxxxxxx",
  "success": true
}

Redirect link

GET to ttp://localhost:8080/{shortLink}

Description:
Simply redirects you to the previously encoded link, incresasing a view counter.

Info link

GET to http://localhost:8080/{shortLink}/info

Response:

{
  "shortUrl": {
    "id": 1,
    "url": "http://localhost:8080/xxxxxxxxxx",
    "expires": "2021-10-10 11:11:11",
    "visits": 1
  },
  "success": true
}