Conjurl - URL shortener API and redirect server

Overview

Takes long URLs and providers a shorter URL that will redirect back to the original URL. The shortened URL can then be used anywhere!
A user account can be created to manage and track the usage of your shortened URLs.
For account-associated shortened URLs, reports statistics for click counts, referrer URLs, and referrer IP addresses for last 24 hours and lifetime of shortened URL.
Easily deployable to AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

API Usage Example


# Create an account:
$ http -b localhost:3000/api/accounts name="Linkoln Longfellow"
{
    "account": {
        "created_at": "2000-01-01T12:00:00Z",
        "name": "Linkoln Longfellow",
        "public_identifier": "4ad31240-051b-0135-379e-0088653f7810",
        "self_ref": "http://localhost:3000/api/accounts/4ad31240-051b-0135-379e-0088653f7810",
        "short_urls": 0,
        "short_urls_ref": "http://localhost:3000/api/accounts/4ad31240-051b-0135-379e-0088653f7810/short_urls"
    },
    "jwt": "eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJjb25qdXJsLmNvbSIsImF1ZCI6ImNvbmp1cmwiLCJpYXQiOjE0OTIzNzg4NTQsInN1YiI6IjRhZDMxMjQwLTA1MWItMDEzNS0zNzllLTAwODg2NTNmNzgxMCJ9.I7iqvfG6z0mrgcu-5Vuyioof0ufJ1yCzztrUgaH35Wo"
}
$ AUTH='Authorization:Bearer eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJjb25qdXJsLmNvbSIsImF1ZCI6ImNvbmp1cmwiLCJpYXQiOjE0OTIzNzg4NTQsInN1YiI6IjRhZDMxMjQwLTA1MWItMDEzNS0zNzllLTAwODg2NTNmNzgxMCJ9.I7iqvfG6z0mrgcu-5Vuyioof0ufJ1yCzztrUgaH35Wo'

# Create a new short URL:
$ http -b localhost:3000/api/short_urls target_url=http://popurls.com "$AUTH"
{
    "created_at": "2000-01-01T12:01:00Z",
    "self_ref": "http://localhost:3000/api/short_urls/weSyIE1u",
    "short_url": "http://localhost:3000/weSyIE1u",
    "statistics_ref": "http://localhost:3000/api/short_urls/weSyIE1u/statistics",
    "target_url": "http://popurls.com"
}

# Find it again:
$ http -b 'http://localhost:3000/api/short_urls/weSyIE1u' "$AUTH"
{
    "created_at": "2000-01-01T12:01:00Z",
    "self_ref": "http://localhost:3000/api/short_urls/weSyIE1u",
    "short_url": "http://localhost:3000/weSyIE1u",
    "statistics_ref": "http://localhost:3000/api/short_urls/weSyIE1u/statistics",
    "target_url": "http://popurls.com"
}

# Navigate to target page via the short URL (Mac OSX):
$ http localhost:3000/api/short_urls/weSyIE1u | jq -r 'short_url' | xargs open
<html><body>You are being <a href="http://popurls.com">redirected</a>.</body></html>

# Retrieve statistics:
$ http -b localhost:3000/api/short_urls/weSyIE1u/statistics "$AUTH"
{
    "last_24_hours": {
        "clicks": 1,
        "top_ip_addresses": {
            "::1": 1
        },
        "top_referrers": {
            "": 1
        },
        "unique_ip_addresses": 1,
        "unique_referrers": 0
    },
    "lifetime": {
        "clicks": 1,
        "top_ip_addresses": {
            "::1": 1
        },
        "top_referrers": {
            "": 1
        },
        "unique_ip_addresses": 1,
        "unique_referrers": 0
    },
    "self_ref": "http://localhost:3000/api/short_urls/weSyIE1u/statistics",
    "short_url": {
        "created_at": "2000-01-01T12:01:00Z",
        "self_ref": "http://localhost:3000/api/short_urls/weSyIE1u",
        "short_url": "http://localhost:3000/weSyIE1u",
        "statistics_ref": "http://localhost:3000/api/short_urls/weSyIE1u/statistics",
        "target_url": "http://popurls.com"
    }
}

# List all of your short URLs:
$ http -v -b localhost:3000/api/accounts/4ad31240-051b-0135-379e-0088653f7810/short_urls "$AUTH"
[
    "http://localhost:3000/api/short_urls/weSyIE1u"
]

# Check if the system is OK:
$ http localhost:3000/health
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
...

Development

Dependencies

Ruby 2.3.3
Rails 5.0.2
Postgresql 9.5.x

Configuration

Optionally, you can configure the length of the shortened URLs and the alphabet used to generate the short URL keys.

See config/setting.yml and config/settings/<env>.yml.

Setup

rails db:create
rails db:migrate

Run the tests

$ rspec

Run server (localhost)

$ rails server -p 3001

Production Deployment Instructions

Using AWS Elastic Beanstalk:

Install Elastic Beanstalk CLI. Instructions here.

Run the following from the project directory to deploy the latest Git-committed changes to a new AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment:

$ eb create conjurl-prod --single -i t2.micro -r us-east-2 --keyname conjurl-prod --platform 'ruby-2.3-(puma)' --database --database.username dbconjurl --database.password <YOUR_SUPER_SECURE_PASSWORD> --database.engine postgres --database.size 5
$ eb setenv SECRET_KEY_BASE=`rails secret` \
CONJURL_JWT_SECRET=<YOUR_SUPER_SECURE_JWT_SECRET> \
CONJURL_URL_REDIRECT_SERVICE_HOST=http://`eb status | grep CNAME: | awk '{ print $2 }'`

To deploy Git-committed updates to the current AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment:

$ eb deploy

NOTE: This is a toy application and it does not use HTTPS! If you are horrified at this realization, feel free to configure the server to use HTTPS. Here's how.

atolopko/conjurl-api