README.md

An URL shortener written in Golang

I wanted to try and see if I could build an URL shortener in Go.

Features

• Doesn’t create multiple short URLs when you try to shorten the same URL. In this case, the script will simply return the existing short URL for that long URL.
• Redirect to your main website when no shortid, or incorrect shortid, is entered, e.g. http://localhost:8080/xdf → http://localhost:8080/.
• Generates short URLs using only [a-z0-9] characters.

Installation

1. Download the source code and install it using the go install command.
2. Use database.sql to create the tiny_urls table.
3. Create a config file in /path/to/url-shortener/ named config.(json|yaml|toml). Use config-example.json as a example.

docker-compose build
docker-compose up

To-do

• Add tests
• • Build Docker image for kuberntes.
• Add deployment