emrebicer/url-shortener

A web server that shorten urls

url-shortener

A web server that shorten long urls

Usage

Make a post request to the server with the long url in the request payload, it should return you the shortened url.

# Run the server for local testing
$ cargo run

# Shorten a url by making a post request
$ curl -X POST 127.0.0.1:3000 -d "https://github.com"
127.0.0.1:3000/z6a6 # Response from the server

Or you can directly use https://url-rs.herokuapp.com/ to test the project.

Web interface

The web interface is accessible at /web, you can try it out here.