bit

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If you want to maintain this code, feel free to either fork this repository or migrate it to the group on codeberg.

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Bit is a simple URL shortener. It is not designed to scale very large.

Attention: This is highly alpha stuff and not yet ready for any kind of production use!

CLI

The CLI tools are only available with newer Flask versions.

Available commands are:

• flask --app=bit initdb
  • Installs a new database
• flask --app=bit addkey --key KEY [--limit LIMIT]
  • Adds a new API key
  • KEY must be 32 characters long
  • LIMIT is the daily limit

API

short

URL

/api/v1/short

Methods

POST

Arguments

key:  API key
      32 chars, hexadecimal

url:  URL to shorten

wish: will try to return this as link identifier, the API may return 
      another identifier than the one specified
      32 chars
      optional

Example

{
    "key": "1234567890ABCDEF",
    "url": "http://www.example.com/example",
    "wish": "MyWish"
}

long

URL

/api/v1/long

Methods

POST

Arguments

key:  API key
      32 chars, hexadecimal

id:   id of URL to expand

Example

{
    "key": "1234567890ABCDEF",
    "id":  "4af3fjnnW",
}