Url-shortener

Url-shortener is a tool for shortening URLs and creating short links.

Technologies

Spring(Boot, JPA), Swagger, Docker, Gradle, MongoDB, Kotlin

Endpoints

• POST /api/v1/shorten

Request JSON

{
 "fullUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpIC7z8V5tI"
}

Response JSON

{
    "id": "KQi69xn",
    "fullUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpIC7z8V5tI"
}

• GET /api/v1/short-url/KQi69xn

Response JSON

{
    "id": "TCGoCYS",
    "fullUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpIC7z8V5tI"
}

Environments

To run this application you need to create .env file in root directory with next environments:

• MONGO_AUTHENTICATION_DATABASE - mongoDB Authentication Database
• MONGO_DATABASE - name of MongoDB
• MONGO_PORT - port of MongoDB
• MONGO_HOST - host of MongoDB

Quick start

1. Clone this repo into folder.

git clone https://github.com/qReolq/url-shortener.git
cd url-shortener

2. Start docker compose

docker compose up

3. Go to localhost:8080/swagger-ui/index.html#/

Description

At the core of this URL shortener is an algorithm that compresses the original link into a 7-character representation. The algorithm employs a character set of 62 symbols