From 6d03d2dc5f1dd913d247f3d88377cddad6dcd7a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maximilian Möhring
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 22:18:54 +0100
Subject: No external link shorter anymore.

---
 crawler/utility.go | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

(limited to 'crawler/utility.go')

diff --git a/crawler/utility.go b/crawler/utility.go
index 5b91c51..d282dbd 100644
--- a/crawler/utility.go
+++ b/crawler/utility.go
@@ -3,9 +3,11 @@ package main
 import (
 	"errors"
 	"math"
+	"math/rand"
 	"regexp"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
+	"time"
 
 	"github.com/gocolly/colly"
 )
@@ -370,3 +372,17 @@ func RoundToEven(x float64) float64 {
 	}
 	return t
 }
+
+/*
+ * Returns random string with len n, used for short urls
+ */
+func getRandomString(n int) string {
+	var letters = []rune("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789")
+
+	rand.Seed(time.Now().UnixNano())
+	s := make([]rune, n)
+	for i := range s {
+		s[i] = letters[rand.Intn(len(letters))]
+	}
+	return string(s)
+}
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