🔒 how do i make a link shortener with python

[opal light]

i want to use my own custom domain.
how do i shorten it and keep it in the database so it's not repeated, or do i opt with keeping it in the database?
how do i encrypt user information as to who registered the link etc. please help! thanks!

[undone quest]

@opal light

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[hardy drift]

dumbest & most straightforward way would be create a form in frontend, where user will enter his link, and a DB with links table where one column will be initial link entered by user and another one will be shortened url you returned to user.

About authentication & authorization you can read in Internet, there's more than enough stuff

[opal light]

thanks, my another question is how bit.ly does it

or big companies

like what's different

[prime juniper]

I'm not entirely sure how they do it but basically when you visit a shortened URL it looks up in a database where that Shortened link goes, then it redirects them to it

But its all a database

[opal light]

hm

so that's the basic science behind link shorteneres

[prime juniper]

Databases aren't science

[hardy drift]

mhm, with relational algebra and all these NFs it is science tho

[prime juniper]

You just need SQLite

[prime juniper]

I haven't used algebra yet in my database...

[opal light]

unrelated but can i use cryptography in this or would that be hard

like say i have a url:
google.com
which gets shortened as 3 random letters and digits

so that makes it faster

[timid osprey]

Feel free to steal ideas from https://teensy.info

[prime juniper]

You would have very limited short links

It wouldn't make a very big difference

[opal light]

thanks lol

[opal light]

hm thanks

database

that's it

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