url-shortener

Spawn up a simple webserver to act as a URL shortener

Usage

Terminal 1

$ url-shortener
[2013-01-11T23:29:43.579Z] server listening on http://localhost:8090
{ github: 'https://github.com', paste: 'http://pastebin.com' }
[2013-01-11T23:29:56.600Z] 127.0.0.1 GET 200 / (2ms)
[2013-01-11T23:29:59.214Z] 127.0.0.1 GET 301 /paste (1ms)

Terminal 2

$ curl -s localhost:8090 | json
{
  "paste": "http://www.pastebin.com",
  "github": "https://github.com"
}
$ curl -I localhost:8090/paste
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://www.pastebin.com
Connection: keep-alive

Config

pass the config file name as the first argument

config.json

{
  "host": "localhost",
  "port": 8090,
  "gid": null,
  "uid": null,
  "urls": {
    "paste": "http://www.pastebin.com",
    "github": "https://github.com"
  }
}

Install

npm install -g url-shortener

License

MIT Licensed