django-url-shortening

A custom URL shortening app for Django with API.

Usage

1. Add urlshortening app to your INSTALLED_APPS and do migrate

2. Wire up the redirect view by adding to your URLconf

   ('^linkshortening/', include('urlshortening.urls'))
   

3. Add settings (more about parameters further)

   INITIAL_URL_LEN = 6
   RETRY_COUNT = 5
   SHORT_URL_PATH = 'http://example.com/short-prefix/'
   REDIRECT_PREFIX = 'r'
   

4. Now you can use API to make short links

   POST linkshortening/short/

   With json data {"full_url": "http://example.com/a/b/c/d/e"}

   And get response

   {"data": {
       "short_id": "123456",
       "short_url_path": "http://example.com/short-prefix/"
    }, "error": ""}
   

5. You could also use urlshortening right from code

   from urlshortening.models import get_short_url, invalidate_url, get_full_url
   

   url = "http://example.com/a/b/c/d/e"
   short_url = get_short_url(url) # Url object
   print(short_url.short_id) # id for short url
   

   full_url = get_full_url(short_url.short_id) # Url object
   print(full_url.url) # "http://example.com/a/b/c/d/e"
   

   # You could also invalidate url
   invalidate_url(full_url.short_id)
   

API

Get short link

• URL

  /short/
  

• Method: POST

• Data Params

  • full_url

• Success Response:

  • Code: 200
    Content: { data: { "short_url_path": "000001" }, error: "" }

• Error Response:

  • Code: 400
    Content: { error : "full_url is empty" }

  • Code: 400
    Content: { error : "full_url is too long" }

Get full link

• URL

  /expand/:short_id/
  

• Method: GET

• URL Params

  short_id=[string]
  

• Success Response:

  • Code: 200
    Content: { error : "", data: { full_url: "http://example.com/to-000001" }}

• Error Response:

  • Code: 404
    Content: { error : "Link is expired" }

  • Code: 404
    Content: { error : "Url doesn\'t exist" }

Get redirect

• URL

  /REDIRECT_PREFIX/expand/:short_id/
  

• Method: GET

• URL Params

  short_id=[string]
  

• Success Response:

  • Code: 302
    

• Error Response:

  • Code: 404
    Content: { error : "Link is expired" }

  • Code: 404
    Content: { error : "Url doesn\'t exist" }

Invalidate url

• URL

  /invalidate/
  

• Method: POST

• Data Params

  • short_id

• Success Response:

  • Code: 200
    Content: { error : "", data: { "short_id": "000001", "invalidated": "true" } }

• Error Response:

  • Code: 400
    Content: { error : "short_id is empty" }

  • Code: 400
    Content: { error : "Link is already expired" }

  • Code: 404
    Content: { error : "Url doesn\'t exist" }

Settings

Available settings are:

• INITIAL_URL_LEN

  Initial length of short id for url. Once you get more short id's than is possible in all combinations of INITIAL_URL_LEN symbols it will increase by one

• RETRY_COUNT

  How many times do we to check before increasing INITIAL_URL_LEN.

• SHORT_URL_PATH

  Url that will be returned with short_id on POST linkshortening/short/ request. It might help you to construct full url.

• REDIRECT_PREFIX

  Select prefix to use redirect links. For example REDIRECT_PREFIX="r" and we get redirect links with format /r/expand/{short_id}/