Flask Link Shortener

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Website link shortener

📝 Table of Contents

• About
• Getting Started
• Usage
• Built Using
• Authors
• Additional

🧐 About

Just a small project for casual use.

🏁 Getting Started

$ git clone https://github.com/MurilloMB/FlaskLinkShortener.git

Prerequisites

1. Python 3.13 or newer
2. Git

Installing

All you need is inside the requirements.txt file.

Just clone the repository, create a virtual envinronment in python with

$ python -m venv venv

After that get into the virtual envinronment according your operational system

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Windows

$ .\venv\Scripts\activate.bat

Need execution policy set to unrestricted to work

Linux

$ source ./venv/bin/activate

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And at final

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

🎈 Usage

First step is get in to your virtual envinroment, if you don't know how go to - Getting Started

Second step is set the local variable (SECRET_KEY) for database encryption purposes

Windows

$ $env:SECRET_KEY = "<YOUR_SECRET_KEY>"

Linux

$ set SECRET_KEY=<YOUR_SECRET_KEY>

The SECRET_KEY need to be a 32 url-safe base64 bytes, like that mZ1Wv0TRoG5pL7klT9oYbVv9XBbkIPhPTfBQsyvVr0k=

Use that command for initialize the database

$ flask initdb

Use the correctly startup for your operational system

Windows

$ .\run.bat

Linux

$ ./run

⛏️ Built Using

• [Python] (https://www.python.org/) - Language
• [SQLite3] (https://sqlite.org/) - Database
• [Waitress] (https://pypi.org/project/waitress/) - Server provider

✍️ Authors

• @MurilloMB

Aditional

• @thomascsd Thanks for VSCode Readme Pattern Extension