https://github.com/martingms/django-globalshorturls

A small Django application for generating short URLs from any other URL.
https://github.com/martingms/django-globalshorturls

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A small Django application for generating short URLs from any other URL.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/martingms/django-globalshorturls
• Owner: martingms
• License: mit
• Created: 2010-12-02T22:34:50.000Z (almost 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2010-12-21T01:56:43.000Z (almost 14 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-11T13:03:45.406Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: Python
• Homepage: https://github.com/martingamm/django-globalshorturls
• Size: 102 KB
• Stars: 6
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 3
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  • Readme: README
  • License: LICENSE

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== django-globalshorturls ==

An app for the django framework that simplifies the task of shortening any URL to an URL of the form yourdomain.com/XYZ.

It supports very basic stats (how many has visited the link), as well as a simple interface for adding new URLs.

If you only need to support shortening of local urls (to articles on your own site for example), I recommend using django-shorturls instead, that can be found here: https://github.com/jacobian/django-shorturls. The baseconv.py file in globalshorturls is borrowed from that app.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me on my twitter http://twitter.com/martingamm.

Patches are very welcome!

== Usage ==

1.  Add SHORT_URL_PREFIX = 'http://yoururl.com/' to your settings file, substituting yoururl.com

    with the domain name you use for shortening.

2.  Add globalshorturls to your INSTALLED_APPS

3.  Move the globalshorturls and templates folder into your project folder.

4.  Set up urls.py the way you want it. It is probably a good idea to have the

    url(r'^(?P[a-zA-Z0-9]+)/$', 'globalshorturls.views.redirect', name='globalshorturls.redirect')

    line be the last one to be parsed (be on the bottom of your global urls.py) so that a visitor tries

    to match every other url-regex before resorting to the redirect function.

5.  Sync your database

6.  Point your browser towards whatever url you gave the index function, and start shortening your urls!