man20820/shorturl-backend

Short URL Backend

This is a simple shortlink / shorturl project. This can shorten your long url to be very short.

This project written in javascript, built using expressjs framework and some library.

Usage

rename .env.example to .env

set mongodb uri and port in env file

create shortlink

request

Method: post
Content-Type: application/json
Url: host:port/api/shorturl

{
    "url": "https://www.tkjpedia.com"
}

response

{
    "original_url": "https://www.tkjpedia.com",
    "short_url": "E_KXV77"
}

access using web browser http://host:port/E_KXV77 will be redirect to https://www.tkjpedia.com

Docker

build with dockerfile

clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/man20820/shorturl-backend.git

build docker image and run the container

docker build . -t man20820/shorturl-backend

run container

docker run -e MONGO_URI=[mongo_uri] -e PORT=80 -p 0.0.0.0:80:80/tcp man20820/shorturl-backend

or run via docker compose, rename docker-compose.yml.example to docker-compose.yml and modify MONGO_URI & PORT inside it.

docker compose up -d

download from registry

docker pull man20820/shorturl-backend

run container

docker run -e MONGO_URI=[mongo_uri] -e PORT=80 -p 0.0.0.0:80:80/tcp man20820/shorturl-backend

or run via docker compose, rename docker-compose.yml.example to docker-compose.yml and modify MONGO_URI & PORT inside it.

docker compose up -d