stliakis / shorty

Flask app for making the world a better place via url shortening

shorty

Flask app for making urls short with a mongodb backend store, its based on https://github.com/pyr/url-shortener but uses mongodb instead of redis and its in python3

Usage

Create

import requests
from pprint import pprint

r = requests.post('http://ws-shorty.domain.com', data={"url":"www.google.com"})
pprint(r.json())

response

{
    "code": "00Z9sTE3IUA",
    "shorturl": "https://ws-shorty.domain.com/00Z9sTE3IUA",
    "success": true,
    "url": "http://www.google.com"
}

Get

import requests
from pprint import pprint

r = requests.get('http://ws-shorty.domain.com/g/00Z9sTE3IUA')
pprint(r.json())

response

{
    "url": "http://www.google.com"
}


*Hitting http://ws-shorty.domain.com/00Z9sTE3IUA will redirect you to https://ws-shorty.domain.com/00Z9sTE3IUA