Shorty - URL Shortener

Shorty is a URL shortening service built using Django. This service includes user authentication as well as shortening service. The app also keeps tracks of URLs that you have already shortened and it can show you how many times that site has been visited using that link. In addition to shortening URLs, it will also auto-generate QR codes for the shortened links.

Website Link

You can visit the site here or http://srty.me

Features

Custom/Random Short Link Generator
Auto-generate QR Code
Keep track of all shortened URLs
User Authentication
- Sign Up
- Login
- Change Password
- Logout

Working Demo

Homepage(before login)

Signup Page

Login Page

Homepage(after login)

Dashboard/Shortener

Change Password

Open Source

This is a completely open sourced project. You can contribute to it if you want to add some feature or improve some feature. Feel free to create a pull request.

Getting Started

Fork this repository and clone the forked repository
Change the working directory to the folder where you downloaded the files
Install all the dependencies using the pip command :

pip install -r requirements.txt
After successful installation of all packages, run the follwing Django commands :

py manage.py migrate

py manage.py runserver
Visit 127.0.0.1:8000 in your browser and enjoy the app.

Built using Django 3.1 and Python 3.8.5 by Ashutosh Krishna