Shorten URL

The goal of this project is to use a free API service to shorten the URL of https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/ and output it either on the screen or via the terminal. The service in use is called https://cleanuri.com. This service does not require any authentication of any kind.

Using the API documentation found in https://cleanuri.com/docs the script calls on the POST method to the "https://cleanuri.com/api/v1/shorten" endpoint and the response should contain the shortened URL. The scripts will display the response via the terminal.

Running the GOLANG solution

To run this script, you must have Golang installed in your system - https://go.dev/doc/install.

To run the golang script run the following command:

go run tinyUrl.go

Running the JS solution

To run this script, you will need yarn, node, and axios.

Install and use latest node version - https://nodejs.org/en/download/

Install yarn - https://classic.yarnpkg.com/lang/en/docs/cli/install/

Install axios - https://axios-http.com/docs/intro or run

yarn add axios

To run the javascript file run the following command:

node tinyUrl.js

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