To route URLs from a Google Drive database, you can't directly access Google Drive as a database. Instead, you'll need to host your data somewhere accessible via an API (e.g., a server with a RESTful API), retrieve the data from Google Drive or another cloud storage solution, and then use JavaScript/jQuery to interact with that API.
Here's a high-level example:
Host Data on a Server:
First, you'll need to host your data on a server. You can store the URLs or mapping data on your server in a database or a JSON file, and expose this data via an API endpoint.
Create an API Endpoint:
Build an API endpoint on your server that allows you to query the short URLs and get the corresponding full URLs. You might use Node.js, Python, or any server-side language to accomplish this.
Make AJAX Requests with jQuery:
Use jQuery to make AJAX requests from your client-side code to the API endpoint on your server. When you receive a short URL, send it to your API to get the full URL.
Here's a simplified example:
Assuming you have a Node.js server with an Express-based API:
javascript code
const express = require('express');
const app = express();
const port = 3000;
const urlDatabase = {
'short1': 'https://www.example.com/page1',
'short2': 'https://www.example.com/page2',
// Add more URL mappings here
};
app.get('/getFullURL/:shortUrl', (req, res) => {
const shortUrl = req.params.shortUrl;
if (urlDatabase.hasOwnProperty(shortUrl)) {
const fullUrl = urlDatabase[shortUrl];
res.json({ fullUrl });
} else {
res.status(404).json({ error: 'URL not found' });
}
});
app.listen(port, () => {
console.log(`Server is running on port ${port}`);
});
In your HTML file:
html code
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>URL Redirection</title>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.6.0.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<p>Redirecting...</p>
<script>
const shortUrl = 'short1'; // Replace with the actual short URL you want to route.
// Make an AJAX request to the server to get the full URL
$.get(`/getFullURL/${shortUrl}`, function (data) {
if (data.fullUrl) {
// Redirect to the full URL
window.location.href = data.fullUrl;
} else {
// Handle the case where the short URL is not found
$("p").text("URL not found.");
}
}).fail(function () {
// Handle AJAX request failure
$("p").text("Error occurred.");
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
In this example, the Node.js server hosts a URL database, and the client-side code (HTML and jQuery) makes an AJAX request to the server to get the full URL based on the short URL provided.