ageis / url

URL shortener employing a psuedo-hash involving base62 encoding of a unique integer & prime numbers near the golden ratio. Also features two modes of thumbnail generation plus jQuery autocomplete based on Alexa top sites.

tinyURL 0.1

by @ageis ( kevin [at] ageispolis [dot] net )

URL shortener employing a psuedo-hash involving base62 encoding of a unique integer & prime numbers near the golden ratio. Also features two modes of thumbnail generation plus jQuery autocomplete based on Alexa top sites.

Core requirements:

• Apache2, PHP, MySQL
• mod_rewrite
• ImageMagick
• CutyCapt and Xvfb (X virtual framebuffer)
• or PhantomJS
• GeoIP

Installation instructions:

• Create a MySQL database + user and grant permissions
• Import the ./includes/lilurl.sql file: mysql -u <user> -p <database> < lilurl.sql
• Clone this repository from the DocumentRoot, so the files end up in /url
• Edit ./includes/conf.php to suit your needs, enter the MySQL credentials from earlier
• Edit .htaccess so that %{HTTP_HOST} matches your domain.
• If you'd rather set this up on the DocumentRoot, you must set DOCROOT to TRUE, adjust $imgdir and modify .htaccess
• Make sure mod_rewrite is enabled: a2enmod rewrite
• You can set a logo for the main page at ./includes/logo.png
• Enabling LOG requires the PHP PEAR/PDO database abstraction layer and GeoIP database in /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIPCity.dat (see link above)
• Enabling THUMBNAIL requires /usr/local/bin/phantomjs by default
• Thumbnail width can be changed in the configuration file.
• If you intend to use all the features, these packages should be installed: imagemagick, cutycapt, php5-geoip, php5-mysql, php-db, php5-sqlite, xvfb, phantomjs

You can retrieve just the thumbnail like so: http://example.com/url/index.php?thumb=http://www.google.com

The API will return a shortened URL in plaintext: http://example.com/url/index.php?longurl=http://www.google.com&api=1

If RESTRICTED = true, then you must supply the key with the request: http://example.com/url/index.php?longurl=http://www.google.com&api=1&key=VdZPkSNbMaRZbTZ4

If there is an error or an incorrect key the output will be blank.

The autocomplete suggests https:// because I support the mission to Encrypt the Web / have HTTPS everywhere.

Lists of top sites can be updated with the following logic, ex. 1000: curl -s -O http://s3.amazonaws.com/alexa-static/top-1m.csv.zip ; unzip -q -o top-1m.csv.zip top-1m.csv ; head -1000 top-1m.csv | cut -d, -f2 | cut -d/ -f1 > top1000.txt

Here's my Bitcoin address for donations: 1AgeisUFv9NJ3AGGq7VPJWymGfFpCHDhCw