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An URL shortener written in Golang

Inspired by Mathias Bynens' PHP URL Shortener, and triggered by a wish to learn Go, I wanted to try and see if I could build an URL shortener in Go.

Features

  • Redirect to your main website when no slug, or incorrect slug, is entered, e.g. http://wiere.ma/http://samwierema.nl/.
  • Generates short URLs using only [a-z0-9] characters.
  • 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.
  • Can import old bitly links

Installation

  1. git clone [email protected]:breyten/go-url-shortener.git
  2. cd go-url-shortener/docker
  3. Create a config file named config.(json|yaml|toml). Use config-example.json as a example.
  4. ./run.sh
  5. docker-compose up -d
  6. Forward requests from your load balancer to the gus_web_1 container (port 8080)

To-do

  • Add tests
  • Add checks for duplicate slugs (i.e. make creation of slugs better)

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