TinyURL is a URL shortening web service, which provides short aliases for redirection of long URLs.
The service provides two Web APIs to shorten or recover url by settings. The decorated url uses 62-base characters(a-z,A-Z,0-9) as their fundamental digitals which means it supports 916,132,832 links with 5 digitals, no worries about the range.
URL shortening
curl -d 'url=https://news.google.com/?hl=en-PH' -H 'Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded' localhost:8964/shorten | json_pp
{
"message" : "success",
"data" : {
"decoratedUrl" : "http://localhost:8964/1",
"originalUrl" : "https://news.google.com/?hl=en-PH"
},
"status" : 0,
"time" : "2019-12-06T08:35:37.171+0000"
}
URL recover
curl -d 'path=1' -H 'Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded' localhost:8964/recover | json_pp
{
"status" : 0,
"message" : "success",
"data" : "https://news.google.com/?hl=en-PH",
"time" : "2019-12-06T08:38:10.406+0000"
}