t0url

Website

url.t0.vc

Description

Command line URL shortener.

This allows you to submit URLs from your command line or browser. A short URL is returned.

Usage

<command> | curl -F 'url=<-' https://url.t0.vc

You can also submit from the web at url.t0.vc.

Example

$ cat yourfile | curl -F 'url=<-' https://url.t0.vc
  https://url.t0.vc/VFAR
$ firefox https://url.t0.vc/VFAR

Bash Alias

Add this to your .bashrc, then source ~/.bashrc:

alias url="curl -F 'url=<-' https://url.t0.vc"

Now you can pipe a URL directly into url!

$ cat yourfile | url
  https://url.t0.vc/VFAR
$ firefox https://url.t0.vc/VFAR

Self-hosting

Install dependencies:

$ sudo apt install python3 python3-pip python-virtualenv python3-virtualenv

Clone repo, create a venv, activate it, and install:

$ git clone https://github.com/tannercollin/t0url.git
$ cd t0url
$ virtualenv -p python3 env
$ source env/bin/activate
(env) $ pip install -r requirements.txt

You can now run it directly:

(env) $ python t0url.py

It's recommended to run t0url as its own Linux user, kept alive with supervisor:

[program:t0url]
user=t0url
directory=/home/t0url/t0url
command=/home/t0url/t0url/env/bin/python -u t0url.py
autostart=true
autorestart=true
stderr_logfile=/var/log/t0url.log
stderr_logfile_maxbytes=1MB
stdout_logfile=/var/log/t0url.log
stdout_logfile_maxbytes=1MB

To expose t0url to http / https, you should configure nginx to reverse proxy:

server {
    listen 80;

    root /var/www/html;
    index index.html index.htm;

    server_name url.t0.vc;

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:5002/;
        proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
    }
}

Then run sudo certbot --nginx and follow the prompts.

License

This program is free and open-source software licensed under the MIT License. Please see the LICENSE file for details.

That means you have the right to study, change, and distribute the software and source code to anyone and for any purpose. You deserve these rights. Please take advantage of them because I like pull requests and would love to see this code put to use.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to all the devs behind Flask and Python.

tannercollin / t0url