An HTML-based URL shortener for static sites.
By updating duck.ini with the directory containing your GitHub Pages site (or any other static site), you can use this to quickly generate short URLs for web resources with no nonsense, no tracking, and no credit card required.
./quack.py <url> dumps out a small HTML file that contains a meta tag with a Refresh element and a target URL. This will redirect browsers to the provided target URL. The filename is the shorturl of the target resource.
Optionally, pass the --slug argument to use a custom slug. This bypasses the configured slug length in duck.ini so you can use whatever you would like.
duck.ini contains all available configuration options.
sitedir should point to the GitHub Page static site directory you would like to control with duck.
sluglength determines the length of the shortcode generated by duck. This can be updated at any time, so feel free to start with a smaller value for convenience.
You can see this in action at the following URLs.
https://pid1.pw/duck redirects to https://github.com/pid1/duck
https://pid1.pw/GM redirects to https://youtube.com
https://pid1.pw/fb redirects to https://facebook.com
The GitHub Pages repository that powers the pid1.pw demo above is available here.