gmarik/urlshort.golang

Minimal Golang URL Shortener service hacked together at Couchbase Day 2016 Toronto

About

Minimal Golang url shortener service using MurmurHash

Why

Hacked together while attending Couchbase Day Toronto. There's a executable that uses Couchbase for persistence.

Running In Memory Store example

Start the server

$ go run cmd/shortener/main.go

Running Couchbase based example

make sure to change couchbase settings in the main.go.

Start the server

$ go run cmd/shortener-couchbase/main.go

Get Short URL

$ curl -i -XPOST http://localhost:4040/?longurl=http://gmarik.info
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 20:20:07 GMT
Content-Length: 66
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

{"shorturl":"http://u.ly/5595bafb","longurl":"http://gmarik.info"}

Get Long URL

$ curl -i  http://localhost:4040/?shorturl=http://u.ly/5595bafb
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 20:18:12 GMT
Content-Length: 66
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

{"shorturl":"http://u.ly/5595bafb","longurl":"http://gmarik.info"}