URL Shortener

Aim

This URL shortener basically shortens lengthy URLs to a tiny URL which makes it easy to share it to others

Pre-requisites

This project needs the following dependencied

• Java 8
• Maven >= 3.2.5
• Spring boot
• H2 Database (An in-memory database)
• Swagger (for documenting the APIs)

Build locally

• Run the command below to generate the build

mvn clean install

Starting the application

• Run the command below to launch the application

mvn spring-boot:run

• Now, open the swagger page to find the APIs here

The swagger page looks like below:

Using the APIs

• Use the POST API with the url to be shortened as the request body like shown below:

• On getting a successful response as shown below, copy the shortenedURL and paste it in the browser which would redirect to the original lengthy URL