URL Shortener

• Simple API that will generate encrypted Short Url.

• This API utilizes Flask and Flask-SQLAlchemy framework. User input will be stored in short-url database.

• For easy use, click and flask-cli are integrated to make terminal command to create the data table.

• Auth-lib is integrated to authorize user login with Google OAuth2 authentication.

Install requirement

It is highly recommended to work in venv- python virtual environment to avoid any collisions with your machine’s python configuration

Execute the command below to install requirement packages:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Configuration

• You need to obtain OAuth 2.0 client credentials from the Google API Console Platform first to be able to run the authentication.

• Obtain the google cloud oauth 2.0 client id and secret since we need those to fill out .env.

• dotenv is used to work with environment variable, .env file must be created in app/.

• .env file should look like:

FLASK_APP=app
FLASK_SECRET_KEY=<secretkey>
FLASK_ENV=development
OAUTHLIB_INSECURE_TRANSPORT=true
OAUTHLIB_RELAX_TOKEN_SCOPE=true
GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID=<client id generated by google cloud oauth 2.0 service>
GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET=<secret generated by google cloud oauth 2.0 service>
DATABASE_URL=sqlite:///short-url.sqlite3

Execution

1. Create the database

flask create_db

1. Run the app

flask run

Demo