shrunk 0.6.6

Rutgers University URL Shortener

shrunk

A URL shortener for Rutgers University. For more information, contact Rutgers Open System Solutions.

Uses MongoDB. Python code targets Python 3.3.

Virtual Environment

Python dependencies are enumerated in pip.req. You can set up an appropriate virtual environment with the following:

$ virtualenv --no-site-packages --python="python3" virtualenv
$ source virtualenv/bin/activate
$ pip install -r pip.req

Documentation

After setting up the virtual environment, you can generate HTML documentation by running ./build_docs.sh from the root of the project. The documentation will be placed in ./docs_out.

Features

Web Application

• Log in with a Rutgers NetID
• Create a short URL from a long URL
• Given a NetID, what URLs have they created?
• Analytics on visits

URL Shortening Service

• Given a short URL, redirect to the long URL
• Track visits to the short URL
• Track popularity and number of clicks

Distribution steps

assuming you're in the root of the git repo

1. git tag -m "some description/changelog"
2. rm -rf dist/ shrunk.egg-info
3. python3 setup.py sdist puts a tar in dist/
4. python3 -m twine upload --repository-url https://test.pypi.org/legacy/ dist/* to upload to test pypi
5. python3 -m twine upload dist/* to upload to pypi WARNING: Don't use bdist_wheel. bdist_wheel refuses to exclude config.py, so if you have one in here for testing, it will package it and give our secret and privs out to the public