ris1b / tinyUrl

Tiny URL

-- It is a URL shortener implementation that utilizes base 62 encoding and a snowflake ID generator.
-- It provides a RESTful API with GET and POST methods for shortening and redirecting URLs.
-- It aims to generate short URLs with 8 characters length, allowing for a large number of unique URLs.

URL Generation

It generates short URLs using a combination of base 62 encoding
and a snowflake ID generator.
Base 62 encoding allows for a larger character set compared to traditional base 10 encoding, enabling more compact representations of numbers.
With a short URL length of 8 characters, there are a total of 62^8 (218,340,105,584,896) possible combinations.

RestFul API Description

Method: POST

Endpoint: /api/v1/shorten

Status Code: 200

Request:

{
    "longUrl" : "www.airbnb.com"
}

Response:

{
  "shortUrl": "tiny.url/1zAx7"
}

Method GET

Endpoint: /api/v1/redirect

Status code: 302

Request:

{
    "shortUrl" : "tiny.url/1zAx7"
}

Response:

{
  "longUrl": "www.airbnb.com"
}