You can always be shorter.

Shorter is a simple URL shortener written in Rust. It stores the urls in-memory or in a file.

I am using bpaf to parse the command line arguments and some essential features to deliever the good cli experience.

Shorter uses the md5 hash of the long url to generate a unique id. The id is then converted to base62 and the first 7 characters are used as the short url.

It is unlikely that two urls will have the same hash, but if it happens, the short url will be the same. In that case, the short url will be overwritten.

I will add a feature to handle collisions in the future.

Usage: COMMAND ...

Available options:
    -h, --help     Prints help information
    -V, --version  Prints version information

Available commands:
    get, g     Get an url by uid
    save, s    Save an url
    delete, d  Delete an url by uid
    list, l    List all saved urls

cargo build --release

cargo test

• pathbuf: todo!
• closure: todo!
• serde: todo!
• construct! todo!

• Add a feature to handle collisions
• Detailed error handling
• Command descriptions
• Guard for invalid urls

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.