Django Shortener provides an URL shortener service

• Python = 3.4.0
• Django >= 1.5
• django-simple-captcha = 0.4.2

Installation : =============

settings : ---------

INSTALLED_APPS = (
        'django_th',
)

you can set the size of the URL and also the domain that will host the service:

SHRT = {
    'url_size':20,                  #set the size of the length of the short url to be build
    'url_domain':'http://foo.bar/'  #set the domain that will provide the URL shortener
} 

in TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS add

'django_shortener.context_processors.short_domain',

thus you could use the foo.bar domain as the short domain that will handle the short url

To set a simple captcha, add the following to ask math question and "drop" noises

CAPTCHA_CHALLENGE_FUNCT = 'captcha.helpers.math_challenge'
CAPTCHA_NOISE_FUNCTIONS = ()

in your templates to create a link :

<a href="{{ short_domain.url_domain }}{{ shrt.urlshort }}">{{ shrt.urlfull }}</a>  

you can have a look at the home.html template for a closer look at how it works

if you need a template tag that parses a text and retreive links with short url use

{{ text|shrt }}

or even

{{ text|shrt|escape|safe }}

How it's working : =================

The full URL are stored "as is" with an associated short URL automatically generated and a MD5 is done on this one and stored too

When a short url is displayed, to get the full 'version', we do a MD5 of this one and retreive the full one.