Introduction

Shorty is an URL shortener written in Python using the Flask framework.

Dependencies

• Flask==0.8
• Flask-WTF
• Flask-SQLAlchemy
• Flask-Script (only needed to run the application from the manage.py script)

Running it

Install the required dependencies with pip

pip install -r requirements.txt

Set up the database

python manage.py syncdb

and then, to run it with the Flask's development server, use the manage.py script

python manage.py runserver

To run the application in a production environment, refer to [Flask's documentation] (http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/deploying/) about deployment options.