Gurl-shortener: demo URL shortening service in python

A demo application for a very simple URL shortening service

The app relies on:

• flask: A python micro web framework
• bootstrap: A CSS & JS framework

Installing

Pip:

pip install url_shortener

Pypi:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/url_shortener

Manual:

python setup.py install

Configuration

You can either modify the config.py file or provide environment variables to configure url_shortener. The following environment variables can be tweaked:

• REDIS_HOST: Address at which the redis server lives, defaults to 127.0.0.1.
• REDIS_PORT: Port on which to contact redis, defaults to 6379.
• URL_PREFIX: URL scheme for your short url host
• LISTEN_HOST: Address to bind to for the short url service
• LISTEN_PORT: Port to bind to

Usage

The service can simply be started by invoking: url-shortener, alternately deployments can be done via Docker:

docker run --rm -p 5000:5000 url-shortener:latest