tsurl

tsurl is a URL shortener built using Rust. Given any url, it will return a short link that redirects to the original URL.

Run

Clone this repository, and run cargo run to start the server. The default admin account is admin:password. This can be changed in the auth.txt file, using htpasswd to generate a password hash.

Roadmap

In order of most necessary to "nice-to-have" features:

• HTTP server with ability to send 302 redirects, using rocket
• Interact with database for persistence of shortened URLs over restarts
• 404, and landing pages.
• Links that expire (time limit)
• Links that expire (number of hits)
• Only authenticated users can create new links, using an exposed API
• Web-Based interface to create and manage list of links
• CLI tool that can be used to quickly create short links
• Export QR code links
• Server keeps track of how many hits each link gets for analytics

Possible Challenges

• Low-latency database query and caching if necessary
• API requests and integration with web and CLI interfaces
• Minimize performance hits during simulated high traffic

Team Binary Braincell

• Amit Prasad (amitp4)
• Ananya Sehgal (asehgal4)