A reusable Django app that adds a link shortener like bit.ly to your site.
Project description
A Django application that adds an URL shortener to your site similar to bit.ly.
This is an early alpha. Use it with caution.
Installation
You need to install the following prerequisites in order to use this app:
pip install django==1.4.2 pip install South==0.7.6 pip install django-libs==0.8 pip install urllib3==1.5
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 = patterns('', ... 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 $ pip install -r requirements.txt $ ./tinylinks/tests/runtests.sh # You should get no failing tests $ git co -b feature_branch master # Implement your feature and tests $ ./tinylinks/tests/runtests.sh # You should still get no failing tests # Describe your change in the CHANGELOG.txt $ git add . && git commit $ git push origin feature_branch # Send us a pull request for your feature branch
Whenever you run the tests a coverage output will be generated in tests/coverage/index.html. When adding new features, please make sure that you keep the coverage at 100%.
If you are making changes that need to be tested in a browser (i.e. to the CSS or JS files), you might want to setup a Django project, follow the installation insttructions above, then run python setup.py develop. This will just place an egg-link to your cloned fork in your project’s virtualenv.
Roadmap
Check the issue tracker on github for milestones and features to come.
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