Kayishort

A simple SQLite-based URL shortner; POST to shorten URLS, GET to visit them. Automatically keeps track of visitor count for each shortened URL.

Current Maintainer: Mohammad Matini <mohammad.matini@outlook.com>

Dependencies

1. Install sqlite3 for your distro
2. Install sbcl: http://www.sbcl.org/ (We only support SBCL for now)
3. Install quicklisp: https://www.quicklisp.org/beta/ and ensure it gets loaded in your .sbclrc.

Build & Run

To build an executable binary:

1. In the project's directory, run: sbcl --load "build.lisp". This will download all of our Common-Lisp dependencies, and build an executable image.
2. run the resulting dist/kayishort file with the appropriate environmental variables for configurations.

Development

To load the system for interactive development:

1. Load the load.lisp file which will download all of our Common-Lisp dependencies, and load the kayishort system into your lisp image.
2. See config.lisp for setf-able configs, setf them to new values if needed.
3. On the repl, run (start-server) to start the server.
4. Hack away...
5. Run (stop-server) to stop the server.

Docker

To build the docker image, run the following command in the project's directory (change the name and tag if you want):

docker build . --tag kayishort:0.1

To run a container of this image, use the following command. Replace any values appropriately, and see the next section for other env-vars you can use:

docker run -p "8000:80" \
           -e KAYISHORT_API_TOKEN=RfIkcLRmnyGkBN/6mujRhtxhL5r9azdVnuk= \
           -v "/home/yourhome/kayishort-data/:/app/data/" --rm -it kayishort:0.1

Environmental Variables

VARIABLE	DESCRIPTION
KAYICORRECT_API_TOKEN	API access token. Clients that want to create new short urls must send the same token in their Authorization header.
KAYICORRECT_SERVER_PORT	Server listening port. 80 by default.
KAYISHORT_DATABASE_PATH	The path to the sqlite3 database file. The database file is automatically created if it does not exist, and migrations are automatically run on server startup.

API

Create Short URL

POST /urls

Create a new short URL. The original long URL is specified as a string value of the property originalUrl within a JSON POST body payload. The URL must be valid, and must begin with http:// or https://. An example of the POST request body might be:

{ "originalUrl": "http://my-long-url.com" }

The response returned by the server will contain the generated short URL as the string value of the property shortUrl within a JSON response body. An example of the response body might be:

{ "shortUrl": "localhost:8000\/urls\/aTlrBBaUrCKQ" }

You can then visit the resulting short URL in a web browser, and you will be redirected to the long URL.

Notes:

• The API endpoint communicates in Content-Type: application/json only.
• This API endpoint requires Authorization. To authorize, you must set the Authorization header to Bearer {{KAYICORRECT_API_TOKEN}}.

Visit Short URL

GET /urls/:id

When a short url is requested, the server will respond with a 301 redirect to the actual original URL. Web browsers would automatically follow the redirect to that original page.

Limitations

• Currently does not support non-ascii URLs. (i.e. URLs containing symbols or Chinese or Arabic characters, etc.)

• Only supports the SBCL Common-Lisp implementation at the moment.

License

Copyright (C) 2020 Kayisoft Inc.

Kayishort is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Kayishort is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Kayishort. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.