kuid

A universally unique identifier, is essentially a shorter version of a UUID and is commonly used to identify records in various applications.

Rationale

When writing a web application, often times we would like to keep the URLs short.

http://localhost/posts/5eAU5M3OyqyuX93bJHopJV

This certainly gives a more concise look than the following.

http://localhost/posts/b9926647-86a7-4f31-9c38-f7cf711bf865

Installation

kuid can be installed via pypi.

pip install kuid

Usuage

The following section describes a basic usage of base62.

>>> import uuid
>>> import kuid
>>> 
>>> kuid.encode(uuid.UUID('b9926647-86a7-4f31-9c38-f7cf711bf865'))
'5eAU5M3OyqyuX93bJHopJV'
>>> 
>>> kuid.decode('5eAU5M3OyqyuX93bJHopJV')
UUID('b9926647-86a7-4f31-9c38-f7cf711bf865')

It also has wrappers around basic uuid functions

>>> import kuid
>>> 
>>> kuid.kuid1()
'47ZU06aw8pUWT5BzmVHsST'
>>> kuid.kuid4()
'60fq4TTss8KYXlT2yJy3AQ'

Credits

• https://dev.to/sonus21/kuid-compressed-universally-unique-identifier-384i
• https://github.com/suminb/base62