shrunk 1.3.3

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 3.6.

Getting started

First set up a virtual environment and install the python dependencies with:

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

Then build the HTML documentation with

$ ./setup.py build_sphinx

This will place the Shrunk developer manual in ./build/sphinx/html. Open the file index.html in that directory and start reading the tutorials linked therein!

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. With graphs and maps!
• Create organizations to share links with your friends!

URL Shortening Service

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