A simple URL shortener built with Python/Flask, perfect for all the lazy web surfers out there! Users can submit any https:// formatted URLs and obtain a shortened version of it. For example the URL for the Flask User Guide, https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/1.1.x/#user-s-guide has been shortened to https://shrtn-ur-url.herokuapp.com/hyXDp

This app was created by @roselynle and @FaisalY12 as part of Futureproof's Coding Challenge.

• Clone or download this repo

• Open your terminal and navigate to the url-shrtn folder
• Run pipenv shell
• Run pipenv install
• Run pipenv run dev
• Flask API will be running on port 5000

Deployed site can be accessed here: https://shrtn-ur-url.herokuapp.com/

• Python, Flask, HTML, CSS

• Set up Flask App file structure from scratch
• Create model and required routes
• Configure the database
• Implement logic for shortening the URL and redirecting the user
• Create template html files for rendering
• Add styling to improve user interface
• Write tests

• Users should be able to enter a URL into an input box on your website's front page
• Your backend will then generate a shortened path at which a User can access their URL
• You must implement Python in some capacity in this application
• Store this shortened path and it's longer counterpart in a database
• No login should be required to create a shortened URL
• If User tries to access your website with a path you have stored in your database, they should get rerouted to the URL it relates to
• If User tries to access your website with a path you do not have stored in your database, they should get rerouted to the homepage where they can create a new short URL

• Deployed our website
• Managed to use SQL Alchemy to create a database and store the URLs
• Implemented error handling

• Writing tests e.g. not knowing how to mock a 500 error code or test the short url since it searches the db for the corresponding long url
• Not being able to get it to work with www formatted URLs

• Not responsive on mobile view