bauripalash/fossurl

Your Own Url Shortner Without any fancy server side processing and support for custom url , which can even be hosted on GitHub Pages

🌐 Open fossurl website

What is Fossurl

Fossurl is an simple URL Shortener Which Can Be Hosted For Free in Github/Gitlab Pages or in Static Site Hosting Service and It doesn't need you to buy any server!

🎯 Goal

Implementing a Simple URL Shortner which can be used without need of any hardcore server side processing and can be hosted on Static Site Hostings such as GitHub/Gitlab Pages

💻 Stack

• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript
• Database : jsonconnect.com (Previously , jsonstore was used but several downtimes forced me to switch to jsonbox.io, then to jsonconnect as jsonbox went offline)

Jsonconnect.com is a fork of Jsonbox.io - learn more on the project's homepage.

🛠️ Features

• It's fast
• It doesn't require any hosting server
• You can use it just by forking the repo and running a script

Where is my data stored?

The connection between your shorten URL and the long one is stored by jsonconnect.com, and will be available as long as the server is alive.

The server is set to keep the data for 99999 days, which is somewhere over 200 years 😎!

👻 Wanna Help Improve It?

Steps:

• Fork This Repo
• Clone On Your Device or Open in Gitpod
• On Linux cd to src directory and on Windows do whatever it's necessary to change directory to src
• If you're on Linux, check your version of Python with the command python --version.
  • If you have python 3 installed, type this command; python -m http.server.
  • If you use python 2, run python -m SimpleHTTPServer instead.
• Make Changes and improvements
• After Making Improvements , send a Pull Request

Issues:

• Create Issues if you find errors or bugs
• Create Issues to submit improvement ideas

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Thanks to

• The Noun Project for the dragonfly icon on homepage
• The Noun Project for the dragonfly icon on README (Both are Licensed under CC BY 3.0 US)
• Anthony Arutyunov for hosting Jsonconnect.com

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⚠ Warning :

• Please Don't Use FossUrl to shorten any sensitive Information , important files or any other sensitive things which can create privacy issues for an individual or a company or an organisation.

• Sponsor :

fossurl's Issues

Custom Links Don't Work

If you enter any character into the Custom URL input, the "Shorten Me" button will not work until you clear the Custom URL input.

it doesnt working

[Internationalization] Add Translations

Suggestion

Currently FossURL is only available in English. It would be useful if it had multiple language support but without effecting the performance!

Some Languages Would Be:

• Bengali
• Chinese
• Hindi
• Spanish
• French
  etc.

Jsonbox.io alternative since it is shutting down.

Not converting protocol correctly when input differs from the allowed.

When i type something like adasdasd://google.com, it doenst remove the invalid protocol and append the allowed one("http://", "https://", "ftp://").

An example:

The url after:

jsonconnect.com is gone! 😔

The website, github repo - everything has vanished into thin air.

References:
https://github.com/jsonconnect/jsonconnect/issues/2#issuecomment-825011113

jsonbox will soon be shut down on May 31st, 2021

The notice from their website https://jsonbox.io/

Note: Jsonbox.io cloud instance will soon be shut down on May 31st, 2021 due to lack of maintenance time. The Jsonbox.io's source code will continue to be open-sourced in Github.

FYI, you can create your own Jsonbox.io instance for free using Heroku & MongoDB Cloud. Go for it if you love Jsonbox.io :)

Not working

Not Working because jsonstore.io is having some trouble for many days
can you please rewrite the script for using with other such free json hosts
like jsonbox.io ?

fossurl.ml Down

Unable to reach - fossurl.ml.

JSONstore allows anyone to just purge the list using DELETE requests.

Do a backup before somebody deletes it!

ADD SUPPORT FOR CUSTOM URLs

I tried a few ways, but none of them worked perfectly! All are commented now

Logo proposal

Hello. I want to contribute voluntarily to the project. I designed this logo for you. What do you think?

Inserting an URL without 'http(s)://' breaks functionality

While testing, I noticed that putting an URL without the entire http://-preamble means the page won't forward to the shortened URL correctly.

For example:
Inputting only 'cnn.com', I got this URL: https://fossurl.palash.tk/#o1snc2 - Going to it gives a 404 as it expands to https://fossurl.palash.tk/cnn.com

Perhaps do a check in JavaScript for the presence of the 'http://' or 'https://', and if it isn't there, add it?

Stored XSS security bug

Steps to reproduce:

Use the chrome console to remove the clientside URL check:

Enter malicous "javascript:" URL

Send link around to phish people using defacements or CSRF to other sites.

Demo Fails To Do Anything

I visited the " >Working Demo<" in the readme file posted on this project, the link resolves to

 https://fossurl.palash.tk/

and entered "http://www.google.com" in the box and pushed the button "Short Me" and nothing happens, it is as if the button was nonfunctional.

Feat: Add Link Error Checking

For example, if I did not enter a link, show an error or toast when I try to generate link. I was able to generate a link without entering anything.

I was also able to enter stuff like asdasd and . and still get a link.