The you can start the dev server by launching:
pip install -r requirements.txt
export DATABASE_URL="mysql://user:pass@host/db"
python manage.py syncdb
foreman start
This URL shortener also provide a useful API to integrate in your website You can retrieve shortened URL in raw, json or xml format just via this url:
http://<your host>/api/translate/<method>
You just have to pass POST parameters with url containing the url you want to shortened