Shrinkker is a simple URL shortener made with Laravel PHP.

The Shrinkker app provides a full Restful API for managing shortening URL's and users.

To use Shrinkker, a user management with a token-based authentication is available.

Hint: In this description, the address shrinkk.er is used for the service.

Register Shrinkker Users

To register users, you can proceed as follows in the Restful API of the app:

POST https://shrinkk.er/api/auth/register HTTP/1.1
content-type: application/json

{
    "name": "Michel Green",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "password": "GreNJak23!&%97a"
}

When the new user is successfully registered, the following response appears with the new authentification token for Shrinkker:

{
  "status": true,
  "message": "Shrinkker User Created Successfully",
  "token": "4|JsO8KXI1uZnzYxGeu4AcI2eLRhhx61GExG9ucHr1"
}

Login Shrinkker Users (Get Token for existing User)

To get a token for an already registered user the following API request can be used:

POST https://shrinkk.er/api/auth/login HTTP/1.1
content-type: application/json

{
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "password": "GreNJak23!&%97a"
}

When the existing user is successfully logged in, the following response appears with the authentification token for Shrinkker:

{
  "status": true,
  "message": "Shrinkker User Logged In Successfully",
  "token": "6|AyUKnqe0QlLBNkZHIniUc8DNXakDas7bUaO3e7sT"
}

Shrinkk URL's

To shorten/shrinkk an existing long URL you need a shrinkker user with an authentication token. If you have that you can shorten a URL with the following API request:

POST https://shrinkk.er/api/url/shrinkk/create HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer 6|AyUKnqe0QlLBNkZHIniUc8DNXakDas7bUaO3e7sT

{
    "url": "https://test-shrinkker-site.com/blog/articles/year/2023?page=4"
}

If the long URL was successfully shortened, the following response appears with the new, shortened (shrinkked) URL:

{
  "status": true,
  "message": "Given Url shrinkked successfully",
  "data": {
    "original_url": "https://test-shrinkker-site.com/blog/articles/year/2023?page=4",
    "code": "2qp1ZtYb",
    "shrinkked_url": "https://your-host/2qp1ZtYb",
    "creation_time": "2023-03-04T12:12:57.000000Z",
    "hits": null
  }
}

Now, with the help of the new, shrinkked URL, the desired destination address can be accessed with any web browser:

https://shrinkk.er/2qp1ZtYb

List all my shrinkked URL's

With the following call all already created shrinkked URL's can be displayed for the logged in user:

#Request
GET https://shrinkk.er/api/url/shrinkk/list HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer 6|AyUKnqe0QlLBNkZHIniUc8DNXakDas7bUaO3e7sT


#Response
{
  "status": true,
  "message": "Shrinkked URLs List",
  "data": {
    "url-list": {
      "2qp1ZtYb": {
        "original_url": "https://test-shrinkker-site.com/blog/articles/year/2023?page=4",
        "code": "2qp1ZtYb",
        "shrinkked_url": "https://shrinkk.er/2qp1ZtYb",
        "creation_time": "2023-03-01T09:12:57.000000Z",
        "hits": 75
      },
      "orAYZ3or": {
        "original_url": "https://test-shrinkker-site.com/blog/articles/year/2023?page=5",
        "code": "orAYZ3or",
        "shrinkked_url": "https://shrinkk.er/orAYZ3or",
        "creation_time": "2023-03-04T00:14:47.000000Z",
        "hits": 7
      },
      "a9cy0QUd": {
        "original_url": "https://test-shrinkker-site.com/blog/articles/year/2023?page=6",
        "code": "a9cy0QUd",
        "shrinkked_url": "https://shrinkk.er/a9cy0QUd",
        "creation_time": "2023-03-05T23:14:52.000000Z",
        "hits": 0
      }
    }
  }
}

Delete my shrinkked URL

To delete a shrinkked URL the following API request can be used:

#Request - You need the shrinkker URL code here!
DELETE https://shrinkk.er/api/url/shrinkk/delete/{code} HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer 6|AyUKnqe0QlLBNkZHIniUc8DNXakDas7bUaO3e7sT

#Response
{
  "status": true,
  "message": "Shrinkked URL deleted"
}

Run Locally

The local environment includes Laravel Sail with a MariaDB Database container.

Clone this project

Go to the project directory

Install the following dependencies on your machine

  docker
  docker compose

Register the shrinkk.er host locally for 127.0.0.1.

Start Shrinkker with Sail

  ./vendor/bin/sail up