A simple django app for manual url shortening. Input of new URLs is only possible via the django admin. They are not generated automatically.
It was created for a Fashion Community to allow short campaign links without loosing link juice and social signals to bit.ly or similar services.
Tested on django 1.6, python 2.7
Add 'teeny_weeny' to your INSTALLED_APPS setting.
INSTALLED_APPS = (
...
'teeny_weeny',
...
)
Add unique short_url_namespace ('l' in this example) to your root urls.py
urlpatterns = patterns('',
...
url(r'^l/', include('teeny_weeny.urls')),
...
)
Visit the admin to create a new short url; alternatively use the interactive shell like so
$ python manage.py shell
Python 2.7.6 (default, Nov 18 2013, 15:12:51)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 5.0 (clang-500.2.79)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
(InteractiveConsole)
>>> from teeny_weeny.models import ShortLink
>>> ShortLink(short='lmgtfy', link='http://www.google.de/').save()
Test the redirection
$ curl -i http://127.0.0.1:8000/l/lmgtfy
HTTP/1.0 301 MOVED PERMANENTLY
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 14:10:07 GMT
Server: WSGIServer/0.1 Python/2.7.6
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Location: http://www.google.de/
Designed by Linda Eich and Ferdinand v. Seggern