Short Unique IDs in Rust

What is Sqids?

Sqids (pronounced "squids") is an open-source library that lets you generate short unique identifiers from numbers. These IDs are URL-safe, can encode several numbers, and do not contain common profanity words. Read more .

This is what they look like:

https://example.com/Lqj8a0

Rust

Quick encode & decode example:

let sqids = Sqids::default();
let id = sqids.encode(&[1, 2, 3])?; // "86Rf07"
let numbers = sqids.decode(&id); // [1, 2, 3]

If IDs are too short, you can pad them to a certain length:

let sqids = Sqids::builder()
  .min_length(10)
  .build()?;
let id = sqids.encode(&[1, 2, 3])?; // "86Rf07xd4z"
let numbers = sqids.decode(&id); // [1, 2, 3]

Create unique IDs by shuffling the alphabet:

let sqids = Sqids::builder()
  .alphabet("k3G7QAe51FCsPW92uEOyq4Bg6Sp8YzVTmnU0liwDdHXLajZrfxNhobJIRcMvKt".chars().collect())
  .build()?;
let id = sqids.encode(&[1, 2, 3])?; // "XRKUdQ"
let numbers = sqids.decode(&id); // [1, 2, 3]