urlshortener

A simple Django API that listens on '/shortener' for GET requests with URLs to shorten, and on '/' for GET requests to return the correponding shortened URL.

It was made to be hosted for free on Pythonanywhere.com, for ever.

The available URL of the project is: https://javiervidrua.pythonanywhere.com

To shorten a URL go to https://javiervidrua.pythonanywhere.com/shortener/?id=url-to-shorten where the id parameter holds the URL to be shortened, in this case it is 'url-to-be-shortened'.

The API is coded in such a way that it will only create one and only one shortened URL for each URL to shorten.

To get the URL of a shortened one, go to https://javiervidrua.pythonanywhere.com/?id=url-shortened where 'url-shortened' is the id that identifies the shortened URL, given to the user after shortening a URL.

Example

Let's say we want to shorten the URL https://github.com/javiervidrua/urlshortener.

What we do is go to https://javiervidrua.pythonanywhere.com/shortener/?id=https://github.com/javiervidrua/urlshortener

And we get something like: https://javiervidrua.pythonanywhere.com/?id=2d268682-51e0-4931-8114-93a059d2330d

Now if we go to https://javiervidrua.pythonanywhere.com/?id=2d268682-51e0-4931-8114-93a059d2330d, it will redirect us to https://github.com/javiervidrua/urlshortener.

Notes

• The project was made just to get some hands-on experience with Python and Django, and even though it is entirely functional, some improvements can be done to make the URLs shorter.

• If you want to run it in production, change DEBUG to False in 'urlshortener/settings.py'

• Other than that, it works well and it's really fast, and I'm really happy with it.