Shorty

Shorty is a tiny little URL shortener. It maps one URL to another. For persistence an H2 file based database is used. No frontend is provided here.

Features

Right now Shorty is pretty simple. You can

• create mappings using the PUT endpoint
• URL representations (QR code)
• retrieve mappings using the GET endpoint

For more details please see openapi.yaml.

However, the feature list may grow over time.

Examples

Create a mapping

$ curl -X PUT --location "https://your.domain.tdl" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d "{ \"originalUrl\": \"https://long.url.tdl\", \"qr\": true }" \
    -D - \
    --output qr-code.png

The shortened URL can be found in the Location header of the response. The response body contains the QR code as a PNG resource.

Set "qr" to "false" if you do not need a QR code.

Call a mapping

$ curl -v "your short url"

This retrieves the original URL and redirects you there.

Future

• Security considerations
• Better logging
• A lifetime feature for mappings