urls-txt

a really simple url shortener: less than 200 lines of Rust and one dependency (tokio).

usage

clone and install:

git clone https://git.alv.cx/alvierahman90/urls-txt.git
cd urls-txt
cargo install --path .

create a list of links:

lines that don't start with a slash (/) are ignore (they're comments)
shortlink followed by redirect link, separated by a space character
/ http://alv.cx everything after the link is ignored (they're comments)
/urls-txt http://git.alv.cx/alvierahman90/urls-txt

run:
```
urls-txt path/to/urls.txt
```

why?

all url shorteners i've come across are too complicated: they have account management and remote APIs and whatnot. too complicated.

this includes my own sus url shortener, which for some reason i decided should use redis for its database and have a HTTP API for updating it.

why not just configure your reverse proxy?

good question. i'm not sure, but i think i want to separate my concerns? you might just want to configure your reverse proxy instead.

caddy

pls.cx { 
   redir / http://alv.cx
   redir /urls-txt https://git.alv.cx/alvierahman90/urls-txt
}

nginx

location / { return 301 http://alv.cx; }
location /urls-txt { return 301 https://git.alv.cx/alvierahman90/urls-txt; }

apache

there's probably a way ¯_(ツ)_/¯