Fast Python Url Shortener (FPUS) It's a very simple URL shortener to run on Google App Engine. First, set up an App Engine account. It's better if you use a custom domain name. Set or not a password in short.py to protect shortening Push all the files onto the server. To shorten an url use format http://yoururl/short? url=shortenurl [&pwd=password] There's a demo here : http://fastpythonus.appspot.com/