README.md
# UrlShortener-API
[![Maintainability](https://api.codeclimate.com/v1/badges/45cfeb44822d09972ef7/maintainability)](https://codeclimate.com/github/AnteMarin/UrlShortener-API/maintainability)
This is an API for URL shortener service like tiny url.
Url shortener is a service that converts long URLs into short aliases to save space when sharing URLs in messages, twitter, presentations, etc.
When a user opens a short URL, it will be automatically redirected to the original (long) URL.
# How to use
+ With Docker and docker-compose:
```sh
$ git clone https://github.com/AnteMarin/UrlShortener-API.git
$ cd UrlShortener-API
$ docker-compose up
```
- Open localhost:8080/swagger-ui.html to see endpoints.
- Without Docker:
```sh
$ git clone https://github.com/AnteMarin/UrlShortener-API.git
```
- Make sure you have access to local or any MySQL server.
- Open project in your favorite editor and change application.properties file to point to your MySQL database
- Build Spring project
- Open localhost:8080/swagger-ui.html to see endpoints.