Shawty

A very light url shortner with expiration support It takes in a long url like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpUuuT_EzSs and return something like https://biturl.top/zE3YBr

This is mainly solution from this coding challenge write Your Own URL Shortener

Below are the endpoint is present

[POST]/short request

{
    "url":"https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects",
    "expire":"2022-10-05T14:48:00.000Z"
}

response

{
    "key": "79f292",
    "long_url": "https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects",
    "short_url": "http://localhost:4000/short/79f292",
    "expire": "2022-10-05T14:48:00.000Z"
}

When the short url is hit ,it redirected using 302 HTTP status code

Todo

• Test cases
• Expiration based short links
• Add Analytics
• Add redis based caching