README.md

URL Shortening Application API

This is the Back-end part of the URL Shortener Application. The goal of this project is to create an API which creates a short URL for a long URL. The API stores the mapping of short URL to long URL in MySQL DB. The API also redirects the user to the long URL when the short URL is accessed.

Prerequisites

Install Java and MySQL first.

Setup

$git clone https://github.com/shreyavi/URLShorteningApplicationAPI.git

API Methods:

create
redirect