django-tinylinks 0.7.1

A reusable Django app that adds a link shortener like bit.ly to your site.

A Django application that adds an URL shortener to your site similar to bit.ly.

Installation

You need to install the following prerequisites in order to use this app:

pip install django
pip install requests

When using Python 2.6, you will also need to install importlib.

If you want to install the latest stable release from PyPi:

$ pip install django-tinylinks

If you feel adventurous and want to install the latest commit from GitHub:

$ pip install -e git://github.com/bitmazk/django-tinylinks.git#egg=tinylinks

Add tinylinks to your INSTALLED_APPS:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...,
    'tinylinks',
)

Add the tinylinks URLs to your urls.py:

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^s/', include('tinylinks.urls')),
]

Don’t forget to migrate your database:

./manage.py migrate tinylinks

Settings

TINYLINK_LENGTH

Default: 6

Integer representing the number of characters for your tinylinks. This setting is used when the app suggests a new tinylink. Regardless of this setting users will be able to create custom tinylinks with up to 32 characters.

TINYLINK_CHECK_INTERVAL

Default: 10

Number of minutes between two runs of the check command. This number should be big enough so that one run can complete before the next run is scheduled.

TINYLINK_CHECK_PERIOD

Default: 300

Number of minutes in which all URLs should have been updated at least once. If this is 300 it means that within 5 hours we want to update all URLs.

If TINYLINK_CHECK_INTERVAL is 10 it means that we will run the command every 10 minutes. Combined with a total time of 300 minutes, this means that we can execute the command 300/10=30 times during one period.

Now we can devide the total number of URLs by 30 and on each run we will update the X most recent URLs. After 10 runs, we will have updated all URLs.

Usage

Just visit the root URL of the app. Let’s assume you hooked the app into your urls.py at s/, then visit yoursite.com/s/. You will see your tinylist overview. Go to yoursite.com/s/create/ to see a form to submit a new long URL.

After submitting, you will be redirected to a new page which shows the generated short URL. If you want this URL to have a different short URL, just change the short URL to your liking.

Now visit yoursite.com/s/yourshorturl and you will be redirected to your long URL.

Contribute

If you want to contribute to this project, please perform the following steps

# Fork this repository
# Clone your fork
mkvirtualenv -p python2.7 django-tinylinks
make develop

git co -b feature_branch master
# Implement your feature and tests
git add . && git commit
git push -u origin feature_branch
# Send us a pull request for your feature branch

In order to run the tests, simply execute tox. This will install two new environments (for Django 1.8 and Django 1.9) and run the tests against both environments.