linkie
======

A simple url shortener. Largely adapting [VandyHacks/vhl.ink](https://github.com/VandyHacks/vhl.ink) with the aim of providing a more ptpb-like experience (i.e the fewest keystrokes from a cli possible while still being reasonably secure for private use)

[![Deploy to Cloudflare Workers](https://deploy.workers.cloudflare.com/button)](https://deploy.workers.cloudflare.com/?url=https://github.com/alyssadev/linkie)

Deploying
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Come up with a `username:password`, base64 encode them, add them to a secret as `AUTH_KEY = Basic $secret`, create a new KV namespace called KV, then `wrangler deploy`

Alternatively, get your AUTH\_KEY, click the Deploy to Cloudflare Workers button above, once it's forked the repo go there and set up your Actions secrets and variables in Settings &gt; Security, with AUTH\_KEY and CF\_API\_TOKEN as secrets and DEPLOY\_HOST as the domain you're hosting linkie on (defaulting to <https://linkie.your-username.workers.dev>)

Usage
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`curl -n -d u=http://example.com linkie/path` will make `http://linkie/path` 302 redirect to the provided url. use .netrc to store the auth username/password (inspired by ix.io). Yes it supports emoji

`curl -n -F 'u=<-' linkie/path` will make the path 302 redirect to the url provided on stdin. Doesn't support more than one url or anything that's not a url. For instance:

```
curl -F 'u=<-' linkie/_ <<EOF
http://example.com
http://example.com?2
EOF
linkie/path => http://example.comhttp//example.com?2
```

`curl -n -d u=http://example.com linkie/_`, if you provide an underscore as the path linkie will generate a four character path from a-z0-9. if it has a collision five times in a row it'll return 500.. at that point i'd probably increase the length of the random ids in the function at the top of index.js to 5 or something, and also i should get off the internet because i've generated 36^4 short urls with this service and that's insane

See test.py for more usage and test cases