URL Shortener App

A url-shortner built using flask and Bitly api. It has following dependencies:

• Flask - Core dependency
• SQLAlchemy - For working with database
• requests - For sending GET and POST request
• PyQRCode - For generating QR code of URL

For using bitly api go to Bitly website and get a free account to get authentication key and group id. Use these credentials in the applications.

To find out guid for your account. Make a GET request to https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v4/groups you can use Postman, Curl, Node or Python request module.

While making request pass your Authorization token to header. In curl you can do this

curl \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer {TOKEN}' \
-X GET \
https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v4/groups

This returns a json object containing guid. For more info

Running App Locally

• Clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/zootedb0t/url_shortner && cd url_shortner

• Create a python virtual environment:

python -m venv venv

• Activate virtual environment:

source venv/bin/activate

• Install required modules:

pip install -r requirements.txt

• Run app:

flask run

App in action

App home page

Add Api Keys

User database containing urls

Short-URL generated through api

Short-URL QR Code