A "go" short-link service

Installation

This tool is written in Go and can be easily installed and started with the following commands.

GOPATH=`pwd` go install github.com/quack79/golinks/cmd/golinks@latest
(nohup ~/bin/golinks) &

By default, the service will put all of its data in the directory data and will listen to requests on the port 80. Both of these, however, are easily configured using the --data=/path/to/data and --addr=:8067 command line flags.

DNS Setup

To get the most benefit from the service, you should setup a DNS entry on your local network, go.corp.mycompany.com. Make sure that corp.mycompany.com is in the search domains for each user on the network. This is usually easily accomplished by configuring your DHCP server. Now, simply typing "go" into your browser should take you to the service, where you can register shortcuts. Obviously, those shortcuts will also be available by typing "go/shortcut".

Using the Service

Once you have it all setup, using it is pretty straight-forward.

Create a new shortcut

Type go/edit/my-shortcut and enter the URL.

Visit a shortcut

Type go/my-shortcut and you'll be redirected to the URL.

Shorten a URL

Type go and enter the URL.

View all go-links

Type go/links and you'll be redirected to a list of all your go-links.

Development

npm install -g typescript --force
npm install -g google-closure-compiler
npm install -g --save go-bindata
make