UsableURL Library, CLI and Microservice

usable-url is a minuscule suite that resolves potentially unusable urls. If you need expansion for a shortened url or url with a missing prefix (e.g wikipedia.org instead of https://www.wikipedia.org) usable-url could help

Requirements

Behind the scenes this program use cURL. cURL should have been installed in your computer to use this program.

Installation

1. go get github.com/gusanmaz/usable-url
2. go install ${GOPATH}/src/github.com/gusanmaz/usable-url/cmd/cli/usable-url-cli.go
3. go install ${GOPATH}/src/github.com/gusanmaz/cmd/usable-url/server/usable-url-server.go

Usage

API

1. Import github.com/gusanmaz/usableurl into your project
2. Call usableURL.Sanitize("your unprocessed url goes here")

CLI

usable-url-cli --url google.com This command should return https://www.google.com

SERVER

1. usable-url-server --port 8081 If you don't specify the port, it defaults to 9001
2. type localhost:8081/?url=google.com into your browser's address bar.
3. Upon enter you could receive a JSON response similar to:

{
  "In": "google.com",
  "Out": "http://www.google.com/"
}

AUTHOR

Güvenç Usanmaz

LICENSE

MIT License