Objective

The project is to implement a URL shortening service using Python/Django. The short URLs are generated using CRC32 and Hashids. The long URL is hashed with CRC32 and hashed with Hashids with salt to generate secured short URL.

Brief

ShortLink is a URL shortening service where you enter a URL such as https://codesubmit.io/library/react and it returns a short URL such as http://short.est/GeAi9K.

Description

The project is developed with Docker, docker-compose, Django, Django REST Framework and Redis.

Prerequisite

For running the project, the following software need to be installed:

• Docker
• docker-compose

Steps to Run the Project

Please, follow the steps below to run the project:

1. Clone the project
2. Go to the project directory
3. Run docker-compose up --build to run the project
4. The project can be accessed through http://localhost:8000 URL. An example of the full URL would be http://localhost:8000/encode.