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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 to127.0.0.1. -
REDIS_PORT: Port on which to contact redis, defaults to6379. -
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
.. _flask: http://flask.pocoo.org .. _bootstrap: http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap .. _gunicorn: http://gunicorn.org
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