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LeetCode 535, Medium. Topics: Hash Table, String, Design. View on LeetCode. Generate this problem as a practice environment: tested reference solution, 12 parametrized pytest cases, and a playground notebook:

Problem

TinyURL is a URL shortening service where you enter a URL such as https://leetcode.com/problems/design-tinyurl and it returns a short URL such as http://tinyurl.com/4e9iAk. Design a class to encode a URL and decode a tiny URL.
Note: This is a companion problem to the System Design problem: Design TinyURL.
There is no restriction on how your encode/decode algorithm should work. You just need to ensure that a URL can be encoded to a tiny URL and the tiny URL can be decoded to the original URL. Implement the Codec class:
  • Codec() Initializes the object of the system.
  • String encode(String longUrl) Returns a tiny URL for the given longUrl.
  • String decode(String shortUrl) Returns the original long URL for the given shortUrl. It is guaranteed that the given shortUrl was encoded by the same object.

Examples

Constraints

  • 1 <= url.length <= 10^4
  • url is guranteed to be a valid URL.

Solution

Reference implementation from solution.py on GitHub, full suite in test_solution.py:

Complexity

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Last modified on September 7, 2026