shortener-old/README.MD

MrKayJayDee Shortener

A simple url shortener frontend and api using mongodb

Setup

Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/Mr-KayJayDee/simple-url-shortener

CD Into the directory

cd simple-url-shortener

Install the modules

npm install

Change the configuration

• Rename the .env.example to .env
• Change MONGO_URI to your mongodb local or cluster url
• Change BASE to your base url (localhost:8080 for local testing)

Change some others things

• Go to the index.html file and change the line 50 column 35 to be https://yourdomain.com/api/short

Start the server

node index.js

API Reference

Shorten a link

  POST /api/short

Body	Type	Description
origUrl	string	Required. The url you want to shorten

Returns

Key	Type	Description
urlId	string	The URL ID
origUrl	string	The original URL
shortUrl	string	The shortened URL
clicks	number	The amount of time this link has been clicked
date	date	The creation date of this link
_id	string	The databse id of this link
__v	number	The version number

{
  "urlId": string,
  "origUrl": string,
  "shortUrl": string,
  "clicks": number,
  "date": date,
  "_id": string,
  "__v": number
}

Example

  POST /api/short

Body:

{
    "origUrl": "http://google.com"
}

Returns:

{
    "urlId": "9bcF-giN0",
    "origUrl": "http://google.com",
    "shortUrl": "https://mrkayjaydee.xyz/9bcF-giN0",
    "clicks": 0,
    "date": "2022-01-26T15:37:26.977Z",
    "_id": "61f16ab602262b5f179d3336",
    "__v": 0
}

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