A blazingly fast link shortener built on CloudFlare Workers KV that also allows you to set custom metadata to the redirected link.

When it comes to messaging apps like Discord, WhatsApp or Slack, you're probably familiar with the fact that when you send a link in chat, a link preview is generated. But what if I told you—the link preview is a lie! Generated link previews actually depend on something called Open Graph meta tags, which this link shortner allows you to conveniently set 😎

Here's a few of examples of how you can set the link previews to anything you'd like it to be.

1. Install Wrangler

cargo install wrangler

2. Clone this repository locally

git clone https://github.com/radiantly/the-redirector
cd the-redirector

# Copy the sample config file
cp wrangler.example.toml wrangler.toml

3. Add your config to wrangler.toml (your account ID, KV namespace, etc)
4. Build and publish

npm install
npm run build
wrangler publish

Before contributing patches, you may need a CloudFlare Workers account to test changes locally. The key files used in the project are:

• worker.js - This is the code that runs in the backend
• public/ - These files are served on the frontend
• staticpack.js - This is a script that bundles the files in public and worker.js to a single index.js which is the final file that is served.

To test your changes,

npm run build
wrangler run dev
# or
wrangler preview

Furthermore, if you use linux, you can use npm run dev or npm run preview to automatically build and run every time you save a file.

MIT License.