URL Shortener - Bitly Clone

🚀 Introduction

• This is a URL Shortener system similar to Bitly. It allows users to generate short URLs from long ones and track analytics such as click counts and access details.
• 👨‍💻 Author: Hop Do Quang (GitHub | Website)
• Status: updating

🛠 Tech Stack

• Backend: Java Spring Boot
• Database: MySQL
• Cache: Redis (for quick lookups)
• Authentication: JWT (for user authentication)
• Message Queue: Kafka (for handling analytics and logging)
• Deployment:
  • Container: Docker
  • CI/CD: GitHub Actions
  • Cloud Server: Deployed on a Cloud Server

📌 Features Main

• ✅ Generate short URLs from long URLs
• ✅ Redirect short URLs to the original long URLs
• ✅ Track analytics (click count, location, user agent, etc.)
• ✅ User authentication (register, login, manage links)
• ✅ Custom short links (user-defined slugs)
• ✅ Expiry for short links

All contributions are welcome! Please feel free to fork the repository and submit pull requests. Thank you so much! 🫶

📌 API Endpoints Sample

🔹 Shorten a URL

POST /api/shortener/create

Request Body:

{
  "originalUrl": "https://example.com/some-long-url"
}

Response:

{
  "shortUrl": "http://localhost:8080/abc123"
}

🔹 Redirect to Original URL

GET /{shortUrl}

Example:

GET http://localhost:8080/abc123

Redirects to https://example.com/some-long-url

🔹 Get Analytics for a Short URL

GET /api/analytics/{shortUrl}

Response:

{
  "clicks": 120,
  "created_at": "2025-02-07",
  "last_accessed": "2025-02-07T12:45:00Z"
}

🚀 Deployment

To deploy using Docker:

docker build -t url-shortener .
docker run -p 8080:8080 url-shortener