pin-go is a tiny Rust app that acts as a URL shortener using Pinboard as a source of truth.
pin-go looks for Pinboard items with the tag go and a secondary tag that describes the location, in the format go:linkname. Thanks to custom DNS mappings, I use it as a personal "golinks" service.
An example Pinboard bookmark looks like this:
This creates the link: go/op-1.
pin-go requires the PINBOARD environment variable to be set to a Pinboard API
token. If you don't have a Pinboard token, you can get one at
https://pinboard.in/settings/password.
Use Cargo to compile the program:
cargo build --release
You'll now have a binary located at ./target/release/pin-go.
Running the binary will start a Rocket http service at http://localhost:8000. If you want to change the port that the program runs on, check the Rocket configuration docs.
To make deploying pin-go easy, we've included a Dockerfile in this repo. Once you have it deployed somewhere, I recommend creating a DNS mapping.
This can be as simple as adding an entry to go (or whatever short word you prefer) in your /etc/hosts. To let me use my golinks on the go, I've set up a mapping at NextDNS and use their iOS app.
pin-go keeps the mapping of golinks in memory in the interest in returning a response as quickly as possible.
If you make changes to your Pinboard golink mappings, simply hit the service at /refresh. The new configuration will be fetched from Pinboard and replaced in memory.
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