ShortId creates amazingly short non-sequential url-friendly unique ids. Perfect for url shorteners, MongoDB and Reddis ids, and any other id users might see.
- By default 7-12 url-friendly characters:
A-Z,a-z,0-9,_- - Non-sequential so they are not predictable.
- Supports
cluster(automatically), custom seeds, custom alphabet. - Includes Mocha tests.
$ npm install shortid --saveshortid has no dependencies.
var shortId = require('shortid');
console.log(shortId.generate());
PPBqWA9~/projects/shortid ❯ node examples/examples.js
eWRhpRV
23TplPdS
46Juzcyx
dBvJIh-H
2WEKaVNO
7oet_d9Z
dogPzIz8
nYrnfYEv
a4vhAoFG
hwX6aOr7Returns an amazingly short non-sequential unique id.
Alias: shortId()
Example
users.insert({
_id: shortId.generate()
name: ...
email: ...
});Default: 1
Optional
Choose a unique value that will seed the random number generator so users won't be able to figure out the pattern of the unique ids. Call it just once before using shortId and always use the same value in your application.
Example
shortId.seed(1000);Default: '0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ-_'
Optional
Change the characters used.
You must provide a string of all 64 unique characters. Order is not important.
Example
// use $ and @ instead of - an _
shortId.alphabet('0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ$@');// any 64 unicode charcters work
shortId.alphabet('ⒶⒷⒸⒹⒺⒻⒼⒽⒾⒿⓀⓁⓂⓃⓄⓅⓆⓇⓈⓉⓊⓋⓌⓍⓎⓏⓐⓑⓒⓓⓔⓕⓖⓗⓘⓙⓚⓛⓜⓝⓞⓟⓠⓡⓢⓣⓤⓥⓦⓧⓨⓩ①②③④⑤⑥⑦⑧⑨⑩⑪⑫');shortId was created for Node Knockout 2011 winner for Most Fun Doodle Or Die.
Millions of doodles have been saved with shortId filenames. Every log message gets a shortId to make it easy
for us to look up later.
Here are some others:
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capre - Cross-Server Data Replication.
riffmint - Collaboration in musical space.
shortness - Node based URL shortener that uses SQLite.
file-db - Document database that uses directories and files to store its data, supporting nested key-value objects in named collections.
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