Nano ID

A tiny and fast Go unique string generator

• Safe. It uses cryptographically strong random APIs and tests distribution of symbols.
• Compact. It uses a larger alphabet than UUID (A-Za-z0-9_-). So ID size was reduced from 36 to 21 symbols.

id, err := nanoid.New() //> "i25_rX9zwDdDn7Sg-ZoaH"
if err != nil {
    log.Fatalln(err)
}

Installation

Once Go is installed, run the following command to get Nano ID.

go get github.com/aidarkhanov/nanoid/v2

Documentation

The package reference is located at pkg.go.dev/github.com/aidarkhanov/nanoid/v2.

Roadmap

• The API of this package is frozen.
• Release patches if necessary.

License

This package is provided under MIT/Expat license. See LICENSE.md file for details.

Thanks to

• Andrey Sitnik for the original JavaScript algorithm implementation.
• Paul Yuan for letting me improve the Python version of the library. Without the previous work, I would not be able to fully understand the algorithm.