shortid

ShortId

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.

• 7-12 url-friendly characters: A-Za-z_-
• Non-sequential so they are not predictable.
• Shuffled alphabet based on an optional seed you provide so others can't decrypt your ids.
• Includes version in case you want to change how you encode your id.
• Includes cluster worker id so you can use on node instances running using Cluster.
• Includes tests that run on Mocha.
• Requires Node 0.6 because it uses Node's new crypto functions.

Example

    var ShortId = require('../index');
    var i = 10;
    while (i--) {
        console.log(ShortId.generate());
    }
    
    // Resulting ids:
    PPBqWA9
    PefBO4A
    eV9B94A
    eemGO4d
    PPGBqhd
    VPyX9hw
    eeDX94w
    PT7GOWA
    PP4XqWA
    PTxG9hD

API

ShortId.generate()

Returns an amazingly short non-sequential unique id.

Other functions

(Full docs coming soon.)

• ShortId.version(int) sets version, returns ShortId module.
• ShortId.worker(int) sets cluster worker, returns ShortId module.

See the tests for more examples.

Created for Node Knockout 2011 winner Doodle Or Die.