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Django URL Shortner

A Django application that adds an URL shortener to your site similar to bit.ly.

This is a fork of [django-tinylinks](https://github.com/bitmazk/django-tinylinks).

This project adds a REST API and integration with the [Piwik](http://piwik.org/) Open Analytics Platform.

Installation

You need to install the following prerequisites in order to use this app:

pip install Django==2.2
pip install urllib3==1.25.1
pip install djangorestframework==3.9.2

If you want to install the latest stable release from PyPi:

$ pip install TODO

Add tinylinks to your INSTALLED_APPS:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...,
    'tinylinks',
]

Add the tinylinks URLs to your urls.py:

urlpatterns = [
    ...
    re_path(r'^s/', include('tinylinks.urls')),
]

Don't forget to migrate your database:

./manage.py migrate tinylinks

Settings

TINYLINK_LENGTH

Default: 6

Integer representing the number of characters for your tinylinks. This setting is used when the app suggests a new tinylink. Regardless of this setting users will be able to create custom tinylinks with up to 32 characters.

TINYLINK_CHECK_INTERVAL

Default: 10

Number of minutes between two runs of the check command. This number should be big enough so that one run can complete before the next run is scheduled.

TINYLINK_CHECK_PERIOD

Default: 300

Number of minutes in which all URLs should have been updated at least once. If this is 300 it means that within 5 hours we want to update all URLs.

If TINYLINK_CHECK_INTERVAL is 10 it means that we will run the command every 10 minutes. Combined with a total time of 300 minutes, this means that we can execute the command 300/10=30 times during one period.

Now we can devide the total number of URLs by 30 and on each run we will update the X most recent URLs. After 10 runs, we will have updated all URLs.

PIWIK_ID

Default: None

The Piwik ID for the of the website in which this app is installed. This should be easily found on the Settings page under the Websites menu.

PIWIK_URL

Default: None

This is the URL at which your copy of Piwik is running.

PIWIK_TOKEN

Default: None

The API key provided by Piwik.

GEOIP_PATH

Default: None

The path for the MaxMind GeoIP data.

Usage

Just visit the root URL of the app. Let's assume you hooked the app into your urls.py at s/, then visit example.com/s/. You will see your tinylist overview. Go to example.com/s/create/ to see a form to submit a new long URL.

After submitting, you will be redirected to a new page which shows the generated short URL. If you want this URL to have a different short URL, just change the short URL to your liking.

Now visit example.com/s/yourshorturl and you will be redirected to your long URL.

Piwik Integration

If you want to export the data to Piwik, you will have to own a clean installation of it, so go and download it from (piwik.org)[http://piwik.org/] and then follow the (installation guide)[http://piwik.org/docs/installation-maintenance/].

API Resources

The API is created using django rest framework and it has 6 resources at the moment.

Tinylinks

/api/tinylinks/

The API allows you to retrievce, create, delete and update your tinylinks.

Creating and modifying tinylinks requires authentication and a valid csrf token.

DEFINITION:

GET http://example.com/s/api/tinylinks/{TINYLINK_ID}/

EXAMPLE REQUEST:

curl http://example.com/s/api/tinylinks/{TINYLINK_ID}/

DEFINITION:

POST http://example.com/s/api/tinylinks/

EXAMPLE REQUEST:

curl -X POST http://example.com/s/api/tinylinks/ -u user:pass -d "long_url=http://google.com/&short_url=goog"

DEFINITION:

PUT http://example.com/s/api/tinylinks/{TINYLINK_ID}/

EXAMPLE REQUEST:

curl -X PUT http://example.com/s/api/tinylinks/{TINYLINK_ID}/ -u user:pass -d "long_url=http://google.com/&short_url=g"

DEFINITION:

PATCH http://example.com/s/api/tinylinks/{TINYLINK_ID}/

EXAMPLE REQUEST:

curl -X PATCH http://example.com/s/api/tinylinks/{TINYLINK_ID}/ -u user:pass -d "short_url=g"

DEFINITION:

DELETE http://example.com/s/api/tinylinks/{TINYLINK_ID}/

EXAMPLE REQUEST:

curl http://example.com/s/api/tinylinks/{TINYLINK_ID}/ -u user:pass

Users

/api/users/

This resource exposes information about users.

DEFINITION:

GET http://example.com/s/api/users/{USER_ID}/

EXAMPLE REQUEST:

curl http://example.com/s/api/users/{USER_ID}/

Database statistics

/api/db-stats/

Retrieve general information about the links stored in the database. Offers a simple way to acces the total number of links and the total number of clicks.

DEFINITION:

GET http://example.com/s/api/db-stats/

EXAMPLE REQUEST:

curl http://example.com/s/api/db-stats/

Statistics

/api/stats/

Retrieve a list of statistics for every tinylinks object in the database.

Query Paramanters:

  • paginate_by
  • page

DEFINITION:

GET http://example.com/s/api/stats/

EXAMPLE REQUEST:

curl http://example.com/s/api/stats/

Tinylink statistics

/api/url-stats/

Retrieve statistics for individual tinylink objects.

Query Parameters:

  • short_url

DEFINITION:

GET http://example.com/s/api/url-stats/{SHORT_URL}/

EXAMPLE REQUEST:

curl http://example.com/s/api/url-stats/{SHORT_URL}/

Expanding tinylinks

/api/expand/

Expand the short link into the long link.

Query Parameters:

  • short_url

DEFINITION:

GET http://example.com/s/api/expand/{SHORT_URL}/

EXAMPLE REQUEST:

curl http://example.com/s/api/expand{SHORT_URL}/

Contribute

If you want to contribute to this project, please perform the following steps:

# Fork this repository
# Clone your fork
$ mkvirtualenv -p python3.6 django-tinylinks
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ ./manage.py test
# You should get no failing tests

$ git co -b feature_branch master
# Implement your feature and tests
$ ./manage.py test
# You should still get no failing tests
# Describe your change in the CHANGELOG.txt
$ git add . && git commit
$ git push origin feature_branch
# Send us a pull request for your feature branch

If you are making changes that need to be tested in a browser (i.e. to the CSS or JS files), you might want to setup a Django project, follow the installation insttructions above, then run python setup.py develop. This will just place an egg-link to your cloned fork in your project's virtualenv.

Roadmap

Check the issue tracker on github for milestones and features to come.

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