Project Title

URL Shortener

Description

URL shortener coded using Golang

Getting Started

Dependencies

• Golang

Executing program

• First, the Go module needs to be installed.

go mod init urlshortener
go get github.com/gorilla/mux

• Then, the project can be run via terminal/cmd.

go build url_shortener.go
main

or

go run url_shortener.go

• After the localhost server is started, we can shorten the URL we want to shorten via terminal/cmd with the following code:

curl -X POST -d "url=link" http://localhost:8080/shorten

• Finally, we can copy the URL created on the terminal/cmd screen and use it through the web browser.

Project Features

• The project is a simple CLI based URL shortening application.

Authors

Muhammet Can Namli

Help

If you have suggestions and recommendations, please contact me.
I would appreciate your support to make the project more modular.