ComboURL
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ComboURL is a short exercise in writing an URL shortener. It's built on top of Flask, which is the only requirement for the project.
Currently there's no persistent storage, the in-memory database is not thread safe so take this into account when running ComboURL :).
The created URLs are of the format http://swag-host.com/up-up-down-down.
API
POST /shorten
Parameters: link should contain the link to shorten
Returns: a combo for the shortened link in text/plain format.
GET /{combo}
Returns:
- 301 if a link matching
combois found, redirects to the link - 404 error if no link matches
combo
Running ComboURL
Installing Flask and Gunicorn
pip install Flask
pip install gunicorn
Running the service in port 5000
cd ComboURL/
gunicorn -b 127.0.0.1:5000 main:app