url-shortner

This is the official repo for assignment 1 of WS&CBS

Setup

You can setup the entire project through simple cli commands. Just open your teminal and paste the below commands.

1. CLone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/ShashankAthreya/url-shortner.git

2. Create the python environment

   bash env.sh

3. Activate the environment

source env/bin/activate

4. Install the required python packages and run flask

bash start.sh

NOTE: This starts flask with an IP accessible for all. To change that, go to start.sh and edit line 4 to 'flask run'

Acknowledgement

Abdelhadi Dyouri for his article on How To Make a URL Shortener with Flask and SQLite