perma/index.js

generate permalink (permanent link) urls for your web pages

var crypto = require('crypto');
// generate a hash of a specific length
module.exports = function perma(url, length) {
  var len = length || 5;
  // exclude chars: Il0oO=/+ and return only the first len
  var hash = crypto.createHash('sha512').update(url.toString()).digest('base64').replace(/[Il0oO=\/\+]/g,'');
  return hash.substring(0, len);
}