dnmellen / lilliput

Django URL shortener

lilliput

Django URL shortener based in Django 1.7

How it works

It's really simple. Links are model objects, each object has an auto-incremental primary key is converted to another 'number' in base 62. Writing numbers in this fashion allows to represent billions of URLs using just 4 chars.

Installing

$ git clone [e-mail]:Feverup/lilliput.git
$ mkvirtualenv lilliput
$ cd lilliput
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ python manage.py syncdb
$ python manage.py migrate
$ python manage.py runserver

Shortening URLs

import requests

r = requests.post(
    'http://yourshortenerserver.com/api/links/',
    data={'original_url': "http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/routers"},
    headers={'Authorization': "Token 9fe1d43feb6902ce6858ca9665a22ff5ef13eaa"}
)

# r.content output
'{
    "original_url": "http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/routers",
    "short_url": "http://yourshortenerserver.com/9",
    "hash": "9",
    "created_at": "2014-10-10T08:02:39.510Z",
    "updated_at": "2014-10-10T08:02:39.514Z"
 }'