mjurl

mjurl ("Mike and Jarrod's URL Shortening Service") is a simple Go API that allows users to shorten URLs. Based on ByteByteGo's URL Shortener problem in System Design Interview Vol. 1

Getting Started

Starting the Server with Docker

1. Ensure you have Docker Engine installed.
2. Run make run
3. Execute requests against http://localhost:8080 to your heart's content

API Routes

POST /v1/api/url

Request Body:

{
    "url": "https://github.com"
}

Response:

200 OK
"<shortened URL hash>"

GET /v1/api/url/{shortURL}

Response:

308 PERMANENT REDIRECT
Location: <longURL>

Contributors

• @jcserv
• @imphungky

License

Distributed under the GNU-GPL License. See LICENSE for more information.