diff --git a/actix/Cargo.lock b/actix/Cargo.lock
index 3bd25ee..82d4a5d 100644
--- a/actix/Cargo.lock
+++ b/actix/Cargo.lock
@@ -971,6 +971,7 @@ version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
  "actix-files",
  "actix-web",
+ "rand",
  "regex",
  "rusqlite",
 ]
diff --git a/actix/Cargo.toml b/actix/Cargo.toml
index 5acdb6e..23bee14 100644
--- a/actix/Cargo.toml
+++ b/actix/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,3 +10,4 @@ actix-web = "4"
 actix-files = "0.6.2"
 rusqlite = "0.29.0"
 regex = "1.7.3"
+rand = "0.8.5"
diff --git a/actix/src/database.rs b/actix/src/database.rs
index f8b3ac0..c14b5ca 100644
--- a/actix/src/database.rs
+++ b/actix/src/database.rs
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ pub fn find_url(shortlink: &str) -> String {
         longlink = link.unwrap();
     }
 
-    add_hit(shortlink);
     longlink
 }
 
@@ -37,7 +36,7 @@ pub fn getall() -> Vec<String> {
     links
 }
 
-fn add_hit(shortlink: &str) -> () {
+pub fn add_hit(shortlink: &str) -> () {
     let db = Connection::open("./urls.sqlite").expect("Unable to open database!");
     db.execute(
         "UPDATE urls SET hits = hits + 1 WHERE short_url = ?1",
@@ -45,3 +44,15 @@ fn add_hit(shortlink: &str) -> () {
     )
     .unwrap();
 }
+
+pub fn add_link(shortlink: String, longlink: String) -> bool {
+    let db = Connection::open("./urls.sqlite").expect("Unable to open database!");
+
+    match db.execute(
+        "INSERT INTO urls (long_url, short_url, hits) VALUES (?1, ?2, ?3)",
+        (longlink, shortlink, 0),
+    ) {
+        Ok(_) => true,
+        Err(_) => false,
+    }
+}
diff --git a/actix/src/main.rs b/actix/src/main.rs
index 30abed0..094e7d1 100644
--- a/actix/src/main.rs
+++ b/actix/src/main.rs
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ use std::env;
 
 use actix_files::{Files, NamedFile};
 use actix_web::{
-    get,
+    get, post,
     web::{self, Redirect},
     App, HttpResponse, HttpServer, Responder,
 };
@@ -12,9 +12,19 @@ mod utils;
 // Define the routes
 
 // Add new links
+#[post("/api/new")]
+async fn add_link(req: String) -> HttpResponse {
+    let out = utils::add_link(req);
+    if out.0 {
+        println!("ok{}", out.1);
+        HttpResponse::Ok().body(out.1)
+    } else {
+        println!("bad{}", out.1);
+        HttpResponse::BadRequest().body(out.1)
+    }
+}
 
 // Return all active links
-
 #[get("/api/all")]
 async fn getall() -> HttpResponse {
     HttpResponse::Ok().body(utils::getall())
@@ -36,8 +46,10 @@ async fn error404() -> impl Responder {
 // Handle a given shortlink
 #[get("/{shortlink}")]
 async fn link_handler(shortlink: web::Path<String>) -> impl Responder {
-    let longlink = utils::get_longurl(shortlink);
+    let shortlink_str = shortlink.to_string();
+    let longlink = utils::get_longurl(shortlink_str);
     if longlink == "".to_string() {
+        database::add_hit(shortlink.as_str());
         Redirect::to("/err/404")
     } else {
         Redirect::to(longlink).permanent()
@@ -52,6 +64,7 @@ async fn main() -> std::io::Result<()> {
             .service(error404)
             .service(getall)
             .service(siteurl)
+            .service(add_link)
             .service(Files::new("/", "./resources/").index_file("index.html"))
     })
     .bind(("0.0.0.0", 2000))?
diff --git a/actix/src/utils.rs b/actix/src/utils.rs
index c0c9a05..edc7258 100644
--- a/actix/src/utils.rs
+++ b/actix/src/utils.rs
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 use crate::database;
-use actix_web::web;
+use rand::seq::SliceRandom;
 use regex::Regex;
 
-pub fn get_longurl(shortlink: web::Path<String>) -> String {
+pub fn get_longurl(shortlink: String) -> String {
     if validate_link(&shortlink) {
         database::find_url(shortlink.as_str())
     } else {
@@ -19,3 +19,63 @@ pub fn getall() -> String {
     let links = database::getall();
     links.join("\n")
 }
+
+pub fn add_link(req: String) -> (bool, String) {
+    let chunks: Vec<&str> = req.split(';').collect();
+    let longlink = chunks[0].to_string();
+
+    let mut shortlink;
+    if chunks.len() > 1 {
+        shortlink = chunks[1].to_string().to_lowercase();
+        if shortlink == "".to_string() {
+            shortlink = random_name();
+        }
+    } else {
+        shortlink = random_name();
+    }
+
+    if validate_link(shortlink.as_str()) && get_longurl(shortlink.clone()) == "".to_string() {
+        (database::add_link(shortlink.clone(), longlink), shortlink)
+    } else {
+        (false, "shortUrl not valid or already in use".to_string())
+    }
+}
+
+fn random_name() -> String {
+    #[rustfmt::skip]
+    static ADJECTIVES: [&str; 108] = ["admiring", "adoring", "affectionate", "agitated", "amazing", "angry", "awesome", "beautiful", 
+		"blissful", "bold", "boring", "brave", "busy", "charming", "clever", "compassionate", "competent", "condescending", "confident", "cool", 
+		"cranky", "crazy", "dazzling", "determined", "distracted", "dreamy", "eager", "ecstatic", "elastic", "elated", "elegant", "eloquent", "epic", 
+		"exciting", "fervent", "festive", "flamboyant", "focused", "friendly", "frosty", "funny", "gallant", "gifted", "goofy", "gracious", 
+		"great", "happy", "hardcore", "heuristic", "hopeful", "hungry", "infallible", "inspiring", "intelligent", "interesting", "jolly", 
+		"jovial", "keen", "kind", "laughing", "loving", "lucid", "magical", "modest", "musing", "mystifying", "naughty", "nervous", "nice", 
+		"nifty", "nostalgic", "objective", "optimistic", "peaceful", "pedantic", "pensive", "practical", "priceless", "quirky", "quizzical", 
+		"recursing", "relaxed", "reverent", "romantic", "sad", "serene", "sharp", "silly", "sleepy", "stoic", "strange", "stupefied", "suspicious", 
+		"sweet", "tender", "thirsty", "trusting", "unruffled", "upbeat", "vibrant", "vigilant", "vigorous", "wizardly", "wonderful", "xenodochial", 
+		"youthful", "zealous", "zen"];
+    #[rustfmt::skip]
+    static NAMES: [&str; 241] = ["agnesi", "albattani", "allen", "almeida", "antonelli", "archimedes", "ardinghelli", "aryabhata", "austin", 
+		"babbage", "banach", "banzai", "bardeen", "bartik", "bassi", "beaver", "bell", "benz", "bhabha", "bhaskara", "black", "blackburn", "blackwell", 
+		"bohr", "booth", "borg", "bose", "bouman", "boyd", "brahmagupta", "brattain", "brown", "buck", "burnell", "cannon", "carson", "cartwright", 
+		"carver", "cauchy", "cerf", "chandrasekhar", "chaplygin", "chatelet", "chatterjee", "chaum", "chebyshev", "clarke", "cohen", "colden", "cori", 
+		"cray", "curie", "curran", "darwin", "davinci", "dewdney", "dhawan", "diffie", "dijkstra", "dirac", "driscoll", "dubinsky", "easley", "edison", 
+		"einstein", "elbakyan", "elgamal", "elion", "ellis", "engelbart", "euclid", "euler", "faraday", "feistel", "fermat", "fermi", "feynman", "franklin", 
+		"gagarin", "galileo", "galois", "ganguly", "gates", "gauss", "germain", "goldberg", "goldstine", "goldwasser", "golick", "goodall", "gould", "greider", 
+		"grothendieck", "haibt", "hamilton", "hardy", "haslett", "hawking", "heisenberg", "hellman", "hermann", "herschel", "hertz", "heyrovsky", "hodgkin", 
+		"hofstadter", "hoover", "hopper", "hugle", "hypatia", "ishizaka", "jackson", "jang", "jemison", "jennings", "jepsen", "johnson", "joliot", "jones", 
+		"kalam", "kapitsa", "kare", "keldysh", "keller", "kepler", "khayyam", "khorana", "kilby", "kirch", "knuth", "kowalevski", "lalande", "lamarr", 
+		"lamport", "leakey", "leavitt", "lederberg", "lehmann", "lewin", "lichterman", "liskov", "lovelace", "lumiere", "mahavira", "margulis", "matsumoto", 
+		"maxwell", "mayer", "mccarthy", "mcclintock", "mclaren", "mclean", "mcnulty", "meitner", "mendel", "mendeleev", "meninsky", "merkle", "mestorf", 
+		"mirzakhani", "montalcini", "moore", "morse", "moser", "murdock", "napier", "nash", "neumann", "newton", "nightingale", "nobel", "noether", "northcutt", 
+		"noyce", "panini", "pare", "pascal", "pasteur", "payne", "perlman", "pike", "poincare", "poitras", "proskuriakova", "ptolemy", "raman", "ramanujan", 
+		"rhodes", "ride", "riemann", "ritchie", "robinson", "roentgen", "rosalind", "rubin", "saha", "sammet", "sanderson", "satoshi", "shamir", "shannon", 
+		"shaw", "shirley", "shockley", "shtern", "sinoussi", "snyder", "solomon", "spence", "stonebraker", "sutherland", "swanson", "swartz", "swirles", 
+		"taussig", "tesla", "tharp", "thompson", "torvalds", "tu", "turing", "varahamihira", "vaughan", "vaughn", "villani", "visvesvaraya", "volhard", 
+		"wescoff", "weierstrass", "wilbur", "wiles", "williams", "williamson", "wilson", "wing", "wozniak", "wright", "wu", "yalow", "yonath", "zhukovsky"];
+
+    format!(
+        "{0}-{1}",
+        NAMES.choose(&mut rand::thread_rng()).unwrap(),
+        ADJECTIVES.choose(&mut rand::thread_rng()).unwrap()
+    )
+}