Each URL that is submitted goes through a simple check for validity and/or added http:// before it to redirect successful. After that, a base 64 string is generated and added to a SQLite database with the corresponding URL that was submitted. The user is then given a short URL that is formatted as: WEBSITE_DOMAIN/token, the token being the base 64 string. Whenever this URL is visited the user will get redirected to the tokens corresponding URL in the database.

Highly encouraged to create a python environment first.

Clone the repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/xemeds/tiny0.git

Move into the cloned folder and install the required libraries:

$ cd tiny0
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

After that run with:

$ python run.py

Visit the below URL to view the flask app:

127.0.0.1:5000

NOTE: When running locally all redirects will also be local.

If you do not have a dedicated server, I highly recommend using Linode, Heroku or PythonAnywhere to host your application.

Before deploying, make sure to set the following environment variables:

$ export WEBSITE_DOMAIN=
$ export SECRET_KEY=
$ export DEBUG=
$ export SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI=

If not they will default to the following values:

WEBSITE_DOMAIN=127.0.0.1:5000
SECRET_KEY=SECRET_KEY
DEBUG=true
SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI=sqlite:///database.db

This project is under the MIT license.