Build your own URL shortener

Build your own URL shortener! Quick and simple instructions and code to start your own URL shortener service.

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@_marks @jeffrizzo true, yet if you paste a 90+ char URL, would be nice to treat it as the chrlen() of a short url and auto short it on POST

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@DouglasBrush That's kinda silly, basic text processing could fix it.

@Bobcalli it would be easy to do, if you know any URL reduces to X number of chars just post-process the URL and adjust for the char #

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