This is a Ktor project to build your own Url shortener

Ktor URL Shortner

This project is a implementation for creating Short URL using Ktor + Kotlin + MongoDB

Usage

It contains two routes if you want to implement it in Client side.

POST - /v1/url

This takes the request,


{
    "url":"your_long_url"
}

GET - /{url}

This will take the short URL as path param and will redirect you to the main original URL

Frontend

It also has a frontend module built using kotlin.html and you can find it in frontendRouting

Points

• By passing a valid URL we can create a short URL of 6 alpha-numerics.
• If validates the URL before creating the short URL
• If the provided URL is present in the Database, it will return back the initial Short URL created in place of creating a new one.
• When the GET short URL is called, we also update the hit count to that short URL.

How to run the project?

• Clone the project.
• Make sure MongoDB is installed.
• Start the MongoDB
• Play around with the project.

To read more about it

• System Design: Build URL Shortening Service using Ktor (Part-1)
• System Design: Build URL Shortening Service using Ktor (Part-2)
• System Design: Build URL Shortening Service using Ktor (Part-3)
• System Design: Build URL Shortening Service using Ktor (Part-4)