Url Shortener for Laravel

Powerful URL shortening tools for your Laravel

• Installation
  • Requirements
  • Laravel 8+
  • Laravel 5.5+
  • Laravel 5.1-5.4
• Configuration
• Usage
  • Changing the driver
  • Adding your own drivers
• Available drivers
  • Bit.ly
  • Firebase Dynamic Links
  • Is.gd
  • Ouo.io
  • Polr
  • Shorte.st
  • TinyURL
  • V.gd
• Changelog
• Security
• Contributing
• Credits
• License

Installation

You can easily install this package using Composer, by running the following command:

composer require binary-cats/laravel-url-shortener

Requirements

This package has the following requirements:

• PHP 7.1 or higher
• Laravel 5.1 or higher

Laravel 8+

If you use Laravel 8 you must have PHP 7.3 or higher (which is a root laravel requirment)

Laravel 5.5+

If you use Laravel 5.5 or higher, that's it. You can now use the package, continue to the usage section.

Laravel 5.1-5.4

If you're using an older version of Laravel, register the package's service provider to your application. You can do this by adding the following line to your config/app.php file:

'providers' => [
   ...
   BinaryCats\UrlShortener\UrlShortenerServiceProvider::class,
   ...
],

Configuration

If you want to change the default configuration, you can publish it with:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider=BinaryCats\\UrlShortener\\UrlShortenerServiceProvider

The package will expose the following config file:

return [

    'default' => env('URL_SHORTENER_DRIVER', 'tiny_url'),

    'shorteners' => [

        'bit_ly' => [
            'driver' => 'bit_ly',
            'domain' => env('URL_SHORTENER_PREFIX', 'bit.ly'),
            'token' => env('URL_SHORTENER_API_TOKEN'),
        ],

        'firebase' => [
            'driver' => 'firebase',
            'prefix' => env('URL_SHORTENER_PREFIX'),
            'token' => env('URL_SHORTENER_API_TOKEN'),
            'suffix' => env('URL_SHORTENER_STRATEGY', 'UNGUESSABLE'),
        ],

        'is_gd' => [
            'driver' => 'is_gd',
            'base_uri' => 'https://is.gd',
            'statistics' => env('URL_SHORTENER_ANALYTICS', false),
        ],

        'ouo_io' => [
            'driver' => 'ouo_io',
            'token' => env('URL_SHORTENER_API_TOKEN'),
        ],

        'polr' => [
            'driver' => 'polr',
            'prefix' => env('URL_SHORTENER_PREFIX'),
            'token' => env('URL_SHORTENER_API_TOKEN'),
        ],

        'shorte_st' => [
            'driver' => 'shorte_st',
            'token' => env('URL_SHORTENER_API_TOKEN'),
        ],

        'tiny_url' => [
            'driver' => 'tiny_url',
        ],

        'v_gd' => [
            'driver' => 'is_gd',
            'base_uri' => 'https://v.gd',
            'statistics' => env('URL_SHORTENER_ANALYTICS', false),
        ],
    ],
];

Below is the full list of .env values to configure:

#-------------------------
# Services:  Url Shortener
#
#-------------------------
URL_SHORTENER_DRIVER=tiny_url
URL_SHORTENER_PREFIX=
URL_SHORTENER_API_TOKEN=
URL_SHORTENER_STRATEGY=
URL_SHORTENER_ANALYTICS=

Usage

The shortener can be retrieved from the container in two ways:

$shortener = app('url.shortener');
// or...
$shortener = url()->shortener();

Once you have an instance of the shortener, you can shorten your URLs:

// This will return your shortened URL as a string
$shortener->shorten(...);

// This will return a promise which will resolve to your shortened URL
$shortener->shortenAsync(...);

// You can also call shortening from Laravel's url component directly
url()->shorten(...);

// or...
app('url')->shorten(...);

// or even...
app('url.shortener')->shorten(...);

This package relies on Guzzle's promise library for its asynchronous shortening, read their documentation for more information.

You can also use dependency injection to inject the shortener into a method:

class MyController extends Controller
{
    public function myFunction(ShortenerManager $shortener)
    {
        $shortener->shorten(...);
    }
}

The shortener exposes the following methods:

Method | Description ---------------|------------------------------------- shorten | Shorten the given URL shortenAsync | Shorten the given URL asynchronously driver | Retrieve a driver (e.g. tiny_url) extend | Register your own driver

Changing the driver

You can change the default driver by setting URL_SHORTENER_DRIVER={driver} in your environment file or publishing the config file and changing it directly.

Adding your own drivers

Much like all of Laravel, you can add your own drivers for this package. You can do this by adding the following code to boot method of your AppServiceProvider.

use BinaryCats\UrlShortener\UrlShortenerManager;

public function boot(UrlShortenerManager $shorteners)
{
    $shorteners->extend('local', function ($app, $config) {
        return new LocalUrlShortener($app, $config);
    });
}

Once you have registered your driver you can call it just like any other driver.

If you wrote a custom driver that others might find useful (such as a public online shortener service), please consider adding it to the package via a pull request.

Available drivers

Below is a list of available drivers along with their individual specs:

Service | Driver name | Since version | Analytics | Monetization --------------------------------------------------|-------------|---------------|-----------|----------------- Bit.ly | bit_ly | 0.1.0 | yes | no Firebase Dynamic Links | firebase | 0.2.0 | yes | no Is.gd | is_gd | 0.2.0 | yes | no Ouo.io | ouo_io | 0.2.0 | yes | yes Polr | polr | 0.3.0 | yes | no Shorte.st | shorte_st | 0.1.0 | yes | yes TinyURL | tiny_url | 0.1.0 | no | no V.gd | is_gd | 0.2.0 | yes | no

Bit.ly

website

This driver runs on Bit.ly's API and currently only supports API version 4. The API requires an access token and currently only generic access tokens are supported. You can retrieve such tokens from your Bit.ly profile. If you have a paid Bit.ly account you will also be able to set the domain for your shortened URLs.

Variable | Description --------------------------|---------------------- URL_SHORTENER_API_TOKEN | Your Bit.ly API token URL_SHORTENER_PREFIX | Your short URL domain

Firebase Dynamic Links

website

This driver runs on Firebase's API. The API requires an access token, a URI prefix and a suffix. You can access these information on you firebase console. The token accessible under the project settings as "Web API Key" and the prefixes can be defined and accessed under the Dynamic Links menu.

The suffix can have the value SHORT or UNGUESSABLE.

IMPORTANT! Links created via the API are not visible in the Firebase console. They are only accessible via the Analytics REST API.

Variable | Description | Default -------------------------|------------------------------------|--------------- URL_SHORTENER_API_TOKEN| Your Firebase API token | URL_SHORTENER_PREFIX | Your URL prefix | URL_SHORTENER_STRATEGY | The path component creation method | UNGUESSABLE

Is.gd / V.gd

website

This driver supports is.gd and v.gd trough their respective APIs. When link previews are enabled v.gd will be used, otherwise is.gd will be used.

Variable | Description --------------------------|---------------------------------------- URL_SHORTENER_ANALYTICS | Enable or disable statistics

Ouo.io

website

This driver uses the Ouo.io API and requires an access token. The API allows for URL monetization via advertisements and provides analytics via its dashboard.

Variable | Description --------------------------|---------------------- URL_SHORTENER_API_TOKEN | Your Ouo.io API token

Polr

website

This driver uses the Polr API. The API requires an access token and a URI prefix.

Variable | Description --------------------------|------------------------- URL_SHORTENER_API_TOKEN | Your Polr API token URL_SHORTENER_PREFIX | Your URL prefix

Shorte.st

website

This driver uses the Shorte.st API, which requires an access token. This API supports monetization of your URLs and can give you insight into your traffic via its dashboard.

Variable | Description --------------------------|------------------------- URL_SHORTENER_API_TOKEN | Your Shorte.st API token

TinyURL

website

This driver runs on the TinyURL API, which requires no additional setup. This driver is the package default.

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information what has been changed in recent versions.

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email one of the authors instead of using the issue tracker. You can find the author emails in the composer.json.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Credits

This is a port from the original LaraCraft's Url Shortener.

• Choraimy Kroonstuiver
• László Görög
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.