ramanan-natarajan / shorturl

Bijective conversion between natural numbers (IDs) and short strings

ShortURL

Bijective conversion between natural numbers (IDs) and short strings

Useful for URL shorteners and short IDs in your permalinks

Usage

• ShortURL.encode() takes an ID and turns it into a short string
• ShortURL.decode() takes a short string and turns it into an ID

Features

• very short strings (much shorter than hex)
  • uses large alphabet of 51 characters
• URL-safe (in contrast to Base64)
  • doesn't use any characters that need to be encoded for use in URLs
• protection against offensive words (in contrast to Base64 and hex)
  • vowels are not used
• unambiguous (in contrast to Base64 and hex)
  • look-alike characters are not used

Example output

• 3141592 <=> vJST
• 123456789 <=> pgK8p

Number range

All numbers from 1 to 2,147,483,647 inclusively can be safely encoded and decoded again in all implementations.

Contributing

All contributions are welcome! If you wish to contribute, please create an issue first so that your feature, problem or question can be discussed.

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT License.