aditeyabaral / redirector

A simple link redirecting service built using Flask

redirector

Redirector is a simple link redirecting service. Built using Flask and SQLAlchemy, it aims to provide a way to shorten and redirect links but usually fails at the former.

How to use Redirector?

Creating redirecting links

Since I'm awful at making pretty interfaces, creation of redirection links can currently only take place using POST requests.

Use the following Python script to make a POST request and create your link.

import sys
import requests

params = {
    "source_url" = sys.argv[1],
    "alias_url" = sys.argv[2]
}

response = requests.post("https://goto-link.herokuapp.com/register", data=params)
print(str(response.content))

Execute the above script using

python3 source_url alias_url

Example, use

python3 https://github.com/ git

Accessing redirecting links

You can access an alias link using goto-link/alias_name

Why use Redirector?

• Open Source

Yup, that's the only advantage I can think of.

Why not to use Redirector?

• The alias links may not be always shorter because of the size of the link prefix
• Creation of alias links is tedious (for now)

It is not as bad as it sounds though.

How to contribute to Redirector?

A pretty interface to create alias links would be a good starting point.

Why did I make a link redirecting service?

Honestly, even I do not know why this exists.