Shorten URL

for more detail about shorten URL system you can check my blog: 短網址系統開發心得

• Feature
• Quick start
• Merge to exist django project
• Some screenshot
• reference
• Contribution

Feature

Fast generate

like goo.gl, paste a URL and click -> get shortened URL!

Costom gernerate

enable custom title,description and thumbnail for facebook (and other social media) link preview.

Analysis

enable to track views.

Quick start

example site

$ git clone https://github.com/kehanlu/shorten_url
$ cd django

# should have django 2.0 enviroment 

$ python manage.py migrate
$ python manage.py runserver

# localhost:8000/links
# enjoy! 

Merge to exist django project

is quite easy!

move folder

put app & template folder to the right place

run

$ python manage.py migrate

modify some codes

yoursite/settings.py

INSTALLED_APP = [
  # ...
  'links',
]

# finely set STATIC_URL and MEDIA_URL
# see django doc:
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/howto/static-files/

links/views.py

# BASE should start with 'http://' or 'https://'
BASE_URL = 'https://yourdomain.com/links/'
BASE_SHORT_URL = 'https://yourdomain.com/u/'

# hash_salt for generate permanent url
HASH_SALT = 'meow'

# default value for custom url
DEFAULT_NAME = ''
DEFAULT_TITLE = ''
DEFAULT_DESCRIPTION = ''

static/images/default_thumbnail.png

put a image for default thumbnail!

Screenshot

ref

Bulma (CSS framework) Chart js(draw Chart)

Contribution

i have no idea now, maybe open an issue! tks