WURLS - W URL Shortener

Demo

Demo is hosted right here.

What is it?

It's an URL shortener, with some pretty nifty features. (please dont use this commercially, at the least migrate to a real db before doing that)

Features

• It shortens urls
• Generates qr codes for urls
• No JS needed!
• URL validation!

Usage

To shorten a link

Go to the main page and then choose your options and it should be shortened

To see the statistics for a page

Go to stats in the bottom right corner, enter your link or shortened id and you will see statistics.
Those statistics include the shortened link, the regular one, a qr code and the view count for that website.

Endpoints

• GET /qr?url=<shortid>
  For seeing the qr code of a shortened page.
• GET /l?url=<shortid>
  For redirecting to a page.
• GET /g?url=<url>
  For seeing the short id of a page.
• POST /shorten
  Creates a shortened url. Requires form data:
  • url=<yoururl> (required)
  • custom=<YOURCODE> (optional)

Credits

• Me, for making the frontend and backend
• W3Schools for a Flask tutorial that I followed and that i kind of understand now