LinkJect | An automatic link shortener & redirector for Scratch projects.

-Vuton-

I've been working on a little side project that past few days, it's not close to finished, and it has a few bugs, but it's in a good enough position to have a topic created on it.

I'd like to present LinkJect, an automatic link shortener & redirector for Scratch projects (that's mostly in Beta). Linkject is safe, easy to use and forever free (more about they three points on the website).

The probably temporary domain is https://linkject.surge.sh and all other usage info is on the site.

Enjoy!

Last edited by -Vuton- (Feb. 6, 2018 17:52:06)

blueparrot18

Thanks!

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Sheep_maker

Perhaps it could convert the base 10 project ID to a modification of base 64 to shorten the URL a bit more.

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-Vuton-

Sheep_maker wrote:
Perhaps it could convert the base 10 project ID to a modification of base 64 to shorten the URL a bit more.

That's a good idea, I'll take a look into it.

Wetbikeboy2500

You can also use Google's goo.gl to shorten links for a Scratch project and really any other website. There is also an api they have to generate new ones.

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herohamp

Hmmm you should find a way to compress the project id.

I would suggest using base62 https://www.npmjs.com/package/base62

just use browserify so it works in the browser

this would shorten each project to 5 characters

EDIT:

https://github.com/sasaplus1/base62.js/ seems to be the same

Last edited by herohamp (Feb. 7, 2018 17:53:07)

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-Vuton-

Wetbikeboy2500 wrote:
You can also use Google's goo.gl to shorten links for a Scratch project and really any other website. There is also an api they have to generate new ones.

Yeah, but I was aiming to make a safer URL shortener, only for scratch, so that users can trust that it doesn't lead them somewhere random.

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blueparrot18

How does this work?

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herohamp

blueparrot18 wrote:
How does this work?

I assume it uses a 404 error page which is programed to take the URL and redirect

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herohamp wrote:
blueparrot18 wrote:
How does this work?
I assume it uses a 404 error page which is programed to take the URL and redirect

Yep

Jonathan50

Sheep_maker wrote:
Perhaps it could convert the base 10 project ID to a modification of base 64 to shorten the URL a bit more.

If base 36 is good enough you can just go .toString(36) and parseInt(…, 36).

Or you could get the last base-64 digit by bitwise-ANDing the project ID with 63, index the digit into a string of 64 URL-safe characters, then shift the project ID 6 bits left, and do it again and again until the project ID is 0…

Last edited by Jonathan50 (Feb. 8, 2018 01:11:26)

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novice27b

Sorry to 1-up you, but I didn't think your URLs were short enough, so I made this: [Removed]

Example: [Removed]

Edit: fixed URLs?

Removed because the site linked has been hijacked by inappropriate material since this post was made.

Last edited by Harakou (Nov. 3, 2019 17:14:06)

i use arch btw

-Vuton-

novice27b wrote:
Sorry to 1-up you, but I didn't think your URLs were short enough…

I'm currently working with scratchtools to further shorten the URLs. Also:

The probably temporary domain is…

it's not close to finished

link shortener & redirector for Scratch projects (that's mostly in Beta)

novice27b

-Vuton- wrote:
I'm currently working with scratchtools to further shorten the URLs

You can use the shortening/expansion code from mine if you want: https://github.com/Novice27b/novice27b.github.io/blob/master/lib.js

i use arch btw

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