A simple URL shortener made with Flask + SQLite. hCaptcha integrated to reduce spam.
To use locally, first set environment variables for your hCaptcha keys:
export HCAPTCHA_SECRET=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
export HCAPTCHA_SITEKEY=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
In app.py, set SERVERN = yourdomain.com. This is the domain it will use to create the shortlinks; on localhost use localhost:5000.
Then run the app python3 app.py and point your browser to localhost:5000. It will create a SQLite database named links.db
To-do:
- Better validation+sanitization for input
- Create feature to add an advertisement to shortlinks before redirecting, a la adfly
- Edit templates to use semantic HTML tags wherever relevant
- Create some themes in the form of CSS stylesheets
- Login?