URL-Shortener Application

This is a lightweight URL shortener built using Flask, a micro web framework for Python. The application allows users to generate short aliases for long URLs, making it easy to share links in a concise and user-friendly manner.

Features:

  URL Shortening: Quickly create short aliases for long URLs.
  Redirection: Users are redirected to the original URL when they access the shortened link.
  Customizable Aliases: Choose custom aliases for your shortened URLs.

Flask

1. Create a project required environment
2. Install a pipenv

   pip3 install pipenv
   

3. To create virtual env for project

   pipenv install 
   

Note: it will Creating a virtualenv for this project… and it will create the pipfile.lock for [dev-packages] and [packages].

4. To activate this project's virtualenv, run

   pipenv shell
   

5. Create project in flask and install

   pipenv install flask
   

6. Go to the your virtualenv in command prompt for windows

   set FLASK_APP=urlshort
   

   Note: Go to the your virtualenv in terminal for windows

   export FLASK_APP=urlshort
   

7. Run the flask app

   flask run
   

8. How to move on to the flask app to production to development in command prompt

   set FLASK_ENV=development
   

9. Then run app

   flask run
   

Credits - Nick Walter for his amazing course on linkdein learning.