Alviss

Introduction

Simple URL shortener project, written in Golang.

Setup and run

You can easily use the following command to simply run the project:

docker-compose -f deployments/docker-compose.yml up

Otherwise, you can install the project with go install in cmd/alviss/ directory and then use:

alviss runserver

To run the project on your machine; and there is a -p or --port flag to specify server port too.

**Note: if you are going to run the project on your local machine, you must have a redis-server running on background.

Routes

localhost:8080/:

Send a GET request and get a warm welcome :)

{
  "message": "Welcome to Alviss! Your mythical URL shortener."
}

localhost:8080/shorten:

POST a JSON object like below and in return, get the generated short link:

{
  "LongURL": "https://gist.github.com/joshbuchea/6f47e86d2510bce28f8e7f42ae84c716",
  "ExpTime": "2d"
}

Exp date valid format: 2d for 2 days, 2h for 2 hours, 2m for 2 minutes and 2s for 2 seconds.

Result:

{
  "message": "Short url created successfully",
  "ShortURL": "http://localhost:8080/ZLgJHJB2"
}

localhost:8080/url/{YOUR-SHORTENED-URL}

Send a GET request and get details of your URL, such as UsedCount or ExpDate:

{
  "ExpDate": "2021-12-20T15:38:26.48860767Z",
  "OriginalURL": "https://gist.github.com/joshbuchea/6f47e86d2510bce28f8e7f42ae84c716",
  "ShortURL": "http://localhost:8080/ZLgJHJB2",
  "UsedCount": 3
}