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ComboURL is a short exercise in writing an URL shortener. It's built on top of Flask, which is the only requirement for the project.

Currently there's no persistent storage, the in-memory database is not thread safe so take this into account when running ComboURL :).

The created URLs are of the format http://swag-host.com/up-up-down-down.

Parameters: link should contain the link to shorten

Returns: a combo for the shortened link in text/plain format.

Returns:

• 301 if a link matching combo is found, redirects to the link
• 404 error if no link matches combo

Installing Flask and Gunicorn

pip install Flask
pip install gunicorn

Running the service in port 5000

cd ComboURL/
gunicorn -b 127.0.0.1:5000 main:app