smlr

A tiny URL shortener written in Rust

Goals

• Provide a simple, low-latency API to shorten links (using rocket crate)
• Minimal configuration set-up (using dotenv crate)
• Basic authentication

Non-goals

• All-in-one solution for link shortening
  • This includes: link expiry, passwords, etc.
• Deduplication

I may write a smarter more feature-complete version, but this is all I need as of right now 😄

Running

You can run this project with cargo run.

For production use, make sure to create a Rocket.toml and .env configuration, and run using cargo run --release.

Building

You can build this project with cargo build.

To-do

• API key to prevent unauthorized use
• Write some tests
• Refactor into nicer modules

License

smlr is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License 3.0.