gorala-link-shortener is a super fast and simple link shortener written in Go. It provides a an API as well as a web frontend for shortining your links. For persistence it uses SQLite. The project also includes an admin interface to show some statistics. Under the hood it uses Echo + GORM.
If you are looking for a minimal solution without much to set up this project might be for you. Since the project is sosmall and straight forward it might also be a good starting point if you want to learn Go or Echo.
If you are looking for a more sophisticated version of a link shortener with a broad feature scope I'd suggest you go with something like polr. Usecases such as a private mode or enhanced statistics are currently not included in this project.
Simply build the included Dockerfile or clone the project and do go run server.go.
The basic authentication for the admin area is via environment variables.
Inside the Dockerfile you have:
ENV link-admin-name=rala
ENV link-admin-pw=#97CJrey1ni6
You can adapt those variables to your personal credentials.
If you are running locally via go run make sure to also set the environment variables in case you want to access the admin area.
You can find a demo version of the project here (hopefully your domain is cooler than mine).
The admin site can be accessed under /admin/main.
See the credentials from above for auth. Note that the database from the demo system will be wiped periodically.
Thanks for your interest! Do not hesitate to open an issue if you have a question, feedback or found something that is not working like it should.
Pull requests for improvements of the library or it's documentation are also highly appreciated.
This library and its content is released under the MIT License.