freman / shortie

A url shortener in Go.

shortie

A simple link shortener with support for several storage backends

Works out of the box with no external database or configuration however configuring it is extremely beneficial

Supported backends

• vedis - A networkless redis, similar to sqlite
• redis - Traditional redis
• mongo - You guessed it, mongo
• boltdb - boltdb :D

Quick start

1. go get github.com/freman/shortie
2. rm ./bin/shortie
3. go get github.com/GeertJohan/go.rice/rice
4. ./bin/rice --import-path=github.com/freman/shortie embed-go
5. go install github.com/freman/shortie

That's it, the shortie binary in bin directory is now 100% self contained and ready to roll

Configuration

Configuration is stored in a TOML file, out of the box it stores data with vedis in memory.

There are example configuration files in the example directory but the basic gist is.

listen = "listen configuration"
storage = "{drivername}"

[config.{drivername}]
$options for driver

Known Issues

• I've never actually used the mongo driver ;)
• I googled the image used as a backdrop, it was all over the place with no attribution, if it's yours, let me know if you want me to remove it or credit you.
• Needs a refactor for some real structure
• Filters can cause lockup if they're porly defined or written