Introduction

This is a URL shortener exmaple build on Django

settings

BASE_URL = 'The basic URL of your shortener site'
SECRET_CODE = 'AP96YKVoviNBM2E1bmgrzcnRWalGZJFQ3Xsxq7L8kIduT540hpDwSCtfOjyHeU'

SECERT_CODE must only cotains A-Z, a-z, 0-9, you can generate SECERT_CODE by:

import random, string
secret_code = list(string.digits+string.ascii_letters)
random.shuffle(secret_code)
print ''.join(secret_code)

Usage

Visit http://localhost:8000/ to generate short URL by form

API

POST /api/

Generate a short url

Format

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

Reponse

{
        "url": "http://www.google.com/",
        "short_url": "http://localhost:8000/8AAAAA"
}

GET /api/{code}

Get the statisitics of short url {code}

Example GET /api/8AAAAAA

Response

{
    url: "http://www.icoding.co/"
    updated: "2013-01-28T03:37:01.411"
    clicks: 0
    created: "2013-01-28T03:37:01.404"
}