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Flask-URL-Shortener

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A lightweight, yet neat tool for shortening URLs, and keeping track of their redirects.

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# Flask URL-Shortener

[Live Demo](https://glowsquid.com/url/) (on a not-so-short URL)

## Features

- Shortens URLs to a default 3-digit prefix using a random character and letter combination.
- Checks if the shortened URL already exists and attempt to re-run the code-generator until it finds an available combination.
- All data is stored in a single MySQL table.
- Case-sensitive. The database distinguishes between upper- and lower-case characters.
- A Stats page lists all the shortened URLs, and shows how many times a target link has been redirected.
- There is a button to automatically copy the shortened URL to clipboard.
- Has an option to use Recaptcha to prevent spambots.

![Screenshot](https://github.com/GlowSquid/Flask-URL-Shortener/blob/master/screenshot.gif)

## Setup

- Create a virtualenv
- Install the requirements `pip install -r requirements.txt`
- Update settings.py with your own MySQL credentials
- Create the database in MySQL `CREATE DATABASE shortener;`
- Run `python create_db.py` to setup the table
- Lastly, alter the MySQL table to allow case-sensitive characters:

`ALTER TABLE url CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_bin;`

Run the app with `python main.py`

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