Pocketbase URL shortener

Ready-to-use url shortener built with Go and Pocketbase.io

Disclaimer: As of the commit day, Pocketbase is still under development! You might check out their docs for any changes!

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Setup

In order to use the url shortener, do the following:

Step 1: Create collection

First, you have to create the needed collection

• Checkout project
• Run go mod download
• Run go run main.go serve
• Head over to localhost:8090/_ and create an account
• Login with the used credentials
• Create a new collection named link with the following fields
  • slug: type text [nonempty, unique]
  • url: type url [nonempty]
  • clicks: type number [min: 0]

Step 2: Add new entries

Once the collection is created, you can start adding new links, like

• slug: gh
• url: https://github.com
• clicks: 0

Step 3: Use it!

Now you can open http://localhost:8090/gh in your browser and should be redirected to Github.

Features

• SQlite powered database
• Usage of used short urls will be tracked (counter which get's increased every time the short url is being accessed)
• Ready-to-use Dockerfile for deploying the app anywhere you want