Django URL Shortner

A set of utils to build custom fully-functional Django URL Shortner. This library helps you build a custom URL Shortner service for your project without relying on external services like bitly

Quick Start

Installation

Django UrlShortner is available at the Python Packaging Index so you can Install it using pip

pip install django-urlshortner

Please dont mistake the spelling with django-urlshortener when installing. The name does not have an e in the word shortner. Its django-urlshortner not django-urlshortener

After you should add the urlshortner app to your INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py

Configuration

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # ....
    "urlshortner"
]

Then you migrate the models to your database

python3 manage.py migrate

Lastly add the routes to your URLConf in your urls.py of your project.

url_patterns = [
    # ...
    path("r/", include("urlshortner.urls")),
]

Now you are good to go.

Usage

The library provides a list of utils to create shortened urls.

To create a short version of a url use the shorten_url function from urlshortner.utils module

# python3 manage.py shell
from urlshortner.utils import shorten_url

url_route = shorten_url(
    "https://github.com/jim-junior/django-urlshortner",
    is_permanent=False
)

print(url_route)
# >>> 0ee3f0

You can now navigate to you the route that you assigned to urlshortner.urls in your URLConf add the returned value att the end of the url. In this case it would be http://localhost:8000/r/0ee3f0/ and this would redirect you to the right URL

Sometimes you want to create a custom URL. For example you want to create a short link for a blog about your new product and you want a url that is easy to remember. You can add this easily by adding the value argument to the shorten_url function

from urlshortner.utils import shorten_url

url_route = shorten_url(
    "https://myblog.com/blog/2022/10/10/..../my-new-product",
    value="NewProduct"
    is_permanent=False
)

You can now navigate to https://localhost/r/NewProduct and It will redirect you

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