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URL Shortener powered by Google Apps Script

This tool is a URL Shortening service powered by Google Apps Script and hosted using Github Pages.
url shortener powered by google apps scripthave you ever wondered no matter how beautiful your web app may seem, the apps script "url" always takes away some of its charisma? the long form url has always bothered me but that wasn't my inspiration to start working on building a url shortening service that uses the resources available with apps script.
Build a URL Shortening service using Google Apps ScriptIt all started when I came across Jonathon Broughton's technique to use Apps Script web apps within embeded ifames in Github Pages, which got my gears turning for I was jonesing to make use of an undocumented parameter within Apps Script's doGet function - pathInfo; which in the end, blew up on my face and I rolled back to using queryString instead.
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Sourabh Choraria
Sourabh Choraria
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My first open-source project - https://github.com/schoraria911/...
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Josh Nicholson
Josh Nicholson
how different it is from Bit.ly?
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Sourabh Choraria
Sourabh Choraria
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@joshnic20148687 Well, entirely :) This is in fact nothing like any other URL shortening/redirection service or more precisely, it doesn't actually set a 301/302 redirect status - which is what all other services do. Besides that, my setup is mostly for closed groups, small user base given the limitations with Google's quotas. Think of this as a POCs for things that can be build using Apps Script. Also, I'm still way behind Analytics - you can practically only get a short URL to redirect you to a long URL and that's pretty much it (for now). There are no "link management" facilities, metrics, graphs etc., that you'd typically expect from a URL shortening service - they're still WIP though.
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