FakeLink

FakeLink is a small backend that provides FLaaS (Fake Links as a Service), based on the Open Graph protocol

Usage (via Docker)

A fully automated development environment for this project can be set up with Docker, Rocker and Docker-Compose. Here's how:

• bin/docker-build.sh creates two images:
  • devlucky/fakelink-dev, for development purposes
  • devlucky/fakelink, for production purposes (lightweight deployable Go image)
• bin/docker-run.sh runs the whole project, including its dependencies, and serves it on 8080
• bin/docker-run.sh bash, where bash can be replaced by any other possible command, executes the command on the project's containers (including dependencies) in an interactive way.

HTTP

The application exposes the following endpoints:

• GET /random Returns the HTML for a random, public link
• GET /links/:slug Returns the HTML for a particular link, identified by its slug
• POST /links Takes a multipart/form-data payload with two keys:
  • a file "image", to upload
  • a field "json" with the following structure:

{
    "link": {
        "private": false,
        "values": {
            "title": "A title for my fake link",
            "description": "..."
            
            # Other OpenGraph fields. See src/templates package 
            # to understand the accepted values and they way 
            # they will be used
        }
    }
}